Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worry about anything so trivial? Not yet have the front-line trenches of the World War produced anything faintly resembling a good novel, nor to my mind will they. I don't suppose we shall even have a story by a real soldier describing exactly his emotions at the front, pleasure and excitement-the exultation of coming alive to the end of a day and of an action-as well as the pain and horror...
...President is extremely proud of his "New Patriots" and of his ability to win their services for the U. S. In nearly every case his appeal to them is patriotic: they would make any sacrifice for their country at war; they should feel the same in peacetime...
Also: David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; Patrick Jay Hurley, Assistant Secretary of War; Frederic A. Tilton, Third Assistant Postmaster General; Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Solicitor-General...
...cooked eggs, cold toast, no drinking water, no milk, no soup, no jam, no jelly- upon such things and conditions did the Secretary of War have to spend attention last week. Such things and conditions had been found to exist at Walter Reed General Hospital, the Army's largest medical establishment...
...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...