Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other long article is entitled "Toward Another War" and is from the pen of Bernard DeVoto, a slightly shopworn bargain from the Saturday Evening Post's lit'ry rummmage sale. It treats of the joys, boons and usifruots of life in the army in war time and paints in glowing terms the aesthetic delights of compulsory prophylaxis and kitchen police and association with the drug store yahoos and greengrocers who comprise our drafted armies. It's harmless and inocuous reading if you like it, but to us represents pretty sad entertainment...
Precisely what office work the Hoover aides will do, Col. Hodges has yet to discover. In general, they will serve as special liaison officers between the White House and the War and Navy Departments. Military matters "of a secondary nature" will be placed before them for action. Special letters dealing with the Army and Navy will be prepared by them for the Hoover signature. A 9-to-5 working day will be observed...
...common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during the present civil war...
...adoring public. This year there are many new acts, not the least astounding of which is that in which a man is shot from a cannon into a net more than 200 ft. away. He is Ugo Zacchini. He and his brother served in the Italian artillery during the War. They wondered then whether a man could be hurled as a projectile. There was no time to find out. Back on their farm in north ern Italy after the Armistice, they experimented with six-ton cannon. One day six years ago Ugo crawled into the gun's muzzle...
Credit for I.T.&T.'s spectacular rise is given, and properly, to the Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn. French and Danish by ancestry, they were born in the West Indies near the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. In the last 15 years, they have won enviable war records, become friends and allies of kings, made great fortunes in the company which they dominate, Sosthenes as president, Hernand as executive vice-president...