Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troublesome in the history of the United States. The next President should be a man familiar not only with our domestic problems, but also with our foreign problems. I believe that General Wood comes nearer meeting this acid test than any other candidate. He is not merely a great soldier, he is a great American. His record shows that during his entire career he has never undertaken any task and not completed it successfully...
...General must be considered to represent by the insignia and the uniform which he wears the military establishment and the prestige of the United States. An insult to such an officer is an insult to that military establishment, to the prestige of the United States and to every American soldier and citizen...
...Second, he is a man of varied experience; he has been a professional man, a soldier and an administrator. He combines science, defense, and executive power. These are the three elements most necessary in the handling of American affairs...
...days ago, arriving in Boston from the West, I was genuinely astonished to see on every hand placards advertising a concert of the Harvard Glee Club featuring the ex-Austrian soldier, Fritz Kreisler. As a matter of fact, the advertisements would lead one to believe that for commercial reasons the Harvard Glee Club had acquired his services in order to give a necessary publicity. In view of the fact that Kreisler has been refused entrance on the concert stage in so many cities throughout the country, I consider it a blunder on the part of the Glee Club to enter...
...story is just such a one as any returned soldier might tell in any American home, and yet it is not without its elements of characteristic humor--as witness the butcher from the Windy City stockyards who is said to have written to his Chicago Mabel that the job wasn't so very different from his regular job at home only "not so regular...