Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reparations and the Allied Debts had been a matter of concern to him since the close of the war, and he, in the role of adviser to President Wilson, was largely responsible for introducing a note of sanity into estimates made at Versailles by the apostles of the revanche. The American observers and officials connected with the operation of the Dawes Plan have retied upon him constantly, for advice...
Active During War...
...World War found him director of the Bureau of Research of the War Trade Bureau, and in 1918 he was chief of the Division of Economics and Statistics of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace...
...evangelist, or minister, it will merely be granting its womankind rights long enjoyed in other walks of life. Where would Queen Cleopatra, or that financial wizard and presidential candidate. Victoria Woodhull, or even "Captain Victor Barker", who deceived her valet and for six years masqueraded in London as a war hero, have got under the present Presbyterian...
...slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground, he exclaimed: "This is a fine to-do! I wonder how far LeBrix is by this time?" Joseph LeBrix had passed Tunis, was almost in Cairo...