Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend in Colorado has just sent me a clipping from your excellent magazine of June 10, in which you quote me as asserting I had been jailed in Boston. I never said such a thing because the only place I ever was in jail was Cork, Ireland, where I was erroneously accused of having planned the battle of Kenmare, in which two tree Maters lost their lives...
...White House last week went a Virginia delegation of Izaak Walton Leaguers, led by Congressman Robert Walton Moore. To the President they handed an expensive rod and reel, said it was "a token of esteem and gratitude for the impetus given outdoor sports, particularly fishing, which the President by hi? example has brought to the attention of the whole country...
General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, paid the "war" a fleeting visit, inspected the field of action. Said he: "This war game constitutes the biggest and best tactical campaign ever waged on American soil by the U. S. Army." Just what it all meant strategically he left to the War College to study...
...Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to the living, but to the thousands and tens of thousands of dead, and I say: 'Soldiers of France, you have seen the men of the Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them...
...There is one good thing certainly to be said about the next war. . . . With lungs full of diphenyl chloroarsine (dropped from the invulnerable machines of the air) we shall not need to worry about anything ever again...