Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erratum-Noter Scott glance again at the Michigan Alumnus, find therein the words: "James Good came to Ann Arbor after securing a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coe College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, his home." TIME referred to Secretary of War Good as Coe-educated. Also the Michigan Alumnus pridefully noted: "Once before as many as three Michigan alumni sat around a cabinet table. That was when Harry M. Daugherty '81/, Edwin L. Denby '96/, and Hubert Work,'82-83, were all appointed by Warren G. Harding. Dr. Work alone of this trio remained over into...
...Californian by birth, a Frenchman by education, a cosmopolite by diplomatic service, Mr. Gibson was last week the guest of President Hoover at the White House. For six months after the war he was on duty with Mr. Hoover in European relief work...
...last week ordered out of commission the U.S.S. Mayflower to save $300,000 annual maintenance and to send nine officers and 148 men back to regular naval duty. Scotch built in 1896, she was purchased by the U.S. from the estate of Ogden Goelet for $480,000 for Spanish War service. President Roosevelt first used her as an official yacht, as did all his successors. President Hoover is no yachtsman...
...firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary of War...
Nine men let themselves down rather hopelessly into nine leather chairs around a table at the State Department. One was a Secretary of State with two assistants. One was a Secretary of War with one assistant. One was a Secretary of the Navy with two assistants. Into the ninth chair slid the slight frame of Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and his country's most inveterate limitation-of-arms conferee...