Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...River flood control plans last week prompted President Hoover to hold up construction contracts pending further legal surveys by his Secretary of War and Attorney General. Con-troversy was renewed over flowage rights across river lands...
...natural amphitheatre by the row-boat-ridden Serpentine, military bands were playing "Tipperary," "A Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev. John Primatt Maud, solemn in billowing lawn sleeves, and pectoral cross. The Bishop took his place on the speakers' platform. A rocket curved up into the evening air. The Bishop of Kensington read the Lord's Prayer and a prayer for the King...
...papers treated the campaign as the most important news of the week. Reviewing the depressing scene in the New York Times last week, famed Journalist and War Correspondent Sir Philip Gibbs said...
...Belgian women have no votes, except in local elections, or if they are "war widows or sufferers...
Even granted that the allies of the last war retain their unanimity against their old opponent. Germany's rapid come-back will soon make her much less amenable to compulsion. At present in urgent need of foreign capital to finance her industry, Germany must tread carefully to avoid offending her possible sources of credit, especially the United States, but once her prosperity is restored to its pre-war condition it may prove no easy task to enforce the provisions of any treaty made at this time. Laudable as is the achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement...