Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the reasoning perceived last week behind President Coolidge's appointment of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, Chicago lawyer, soldier, bank director, to the Cuban post. Like the selection of Morgan-partner Dwight Whitney Morrow for the recent vacancy in Mexico, Mr. Judah's selection, over the heads of State Department "career men," was an effort to discover and apply special aptitude for a special necessity...
...never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee of Brown University...
Mayor Thompson's dislike of Mr. Lowden goes back at least to the Chicago "peace meeting" which Mayor Thompson tried to hold in 1918. Citizens cried out upon this "pro-German" demonstration. The soldier-Governor asked Mayor Thompson to stop it. Mayor Thompson said he had no such authority. Governor Lowden sent militia. There was no meeting...
...came from the other side of the Adriatic. In Rome, Naples, Padua; in Florence, Milan, Turin; in Bologna, Venice, Trieste and in many another city "Down with France!" and "Down with Jugoslavia!" resounded. In Rome 2,000 citizens of profound Fascist faith assembled at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and swore blind devotion to any command of their cherished leader, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
Ceremonial. On Armistice Day, President & Mrs. Coolidge were the first to lay flowers-he a wreath, she one white rose-on the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Arlington National Cemetery. They did not participate in the Canadian-U. S. ceremonies at Arlington later...