Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Civil War, several Negroes were elected from Southern States to take seats in the House of Representatives. Soon those Negroes nominated youths of their own race for the U. S. service academies at Annapolis and West Point. In 1873 two young Negroes passed the Annapolis entrance examinations and were admitted. Within the year both resigned, because of "deficiencies in their studies." The next year, another Negro went to study at the Naval Academy. Before his plebe (first) term was out he was dismissed, for using "profane and vile" language to a classmate...
...Geneva, suave U. S. Delegate Gibson -a close friend and co-worker with Herbert Hoover since Belgian War relief days -had laid down, in addition to the Hoover Formula which he could not present, two major principles...
...daily continued putting down thousands of sixpence to buy copies of Mr. Lloyd George's Orange Book, a pamphlet explaining how the Liberals hope to end unemployment by putting the unemployed to work on a great state program of road building and other public works. "We mobilized for war, let us mobilize for prosperity!" reads the cover of the Orange Book. Above is a cut showing a huge, smiling Lloyd George, arms outstretched in a gesture suggestive of showering gold-pieces upon gladsome, marching files of tiny soldiers and workmen...
...finding uncomfortable new buildings in an old and settled town, they discovered a great established park with comparatively old exposition buildings in a hastily modernized city. Seville's exposition has been 19 years in preparation, many times postponed. The main building was used as a hospital during the War. Trees have grown up; the buildings look settled. This winter, however, it was decided that the old crooked streets of Seville were not wide enough for the large expensive automobiles of expected tourists, Seville's hotel accommodations were insufficient. Old blocks were ruthlessly torn down, new streets hastily laid...
...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...