Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon Secretary Adams's praise of the Cabinet of which he is a member Senator Harrison commented: "He recommends himself pretty highly, don't you think?" After his Boston speech, and the Harrison reply, Secretary Adams went to Newport, awarded diplomas at the Navy's War College, delivered the graduation speech. It was the shortest on record-two minutes...
...President went, as custom required, to the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. By custom he delivered a speech on Peace. Contrary to custom he said something pointed. His argument: The Kellogg treaty for the renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons...
...history of the University. The two paintings fill the sunken panels at the right and left of the main doorway into the room of memorial photographs and the Widener collection. They are intended as a memorial to the students of Harvard University who lost their lives in the Great War...
...Danguy went to London as head instructor of the MacPherson gymnasium. Later, he opened his own salle which he conducted for 17 years. In 1908 Danguy became chief instructor at the New York Fencers Club, where he remained until the end of the war. During this time, in 1912, he was coach of the American Olympic team...
...obvious, moreover, that the murals do perpetuate the feeling aroused in the heat of the fast war, and I should think that it would be a very high consideration for those fortunate people who are supposed to hold aloof from the worst phases of mob passion, to do everything possible to banish every trace of such an attitude in the interest of the future of mankind...