Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further resolution by the Conference placed a limit of $85,000,000 per annum on the budget of the Chinese War Office. Most significantly of all, the Provincial Governors agreed to combine their private armies into a truly national army, commanded solely from Nanking...
...next morning war broke out between France and Germany. Napoleon III had to take his troops out of Italy. Pio Nono, who all this while had been protected by France, was defenseless. On the 20th of September Victor Emmanuel, one of the greedy Kings, seized Rome and took away the lands of Pio Nono...
...Childs' executive office is war, with hard feeling, recrimination and bitter, bitter words. Last week came upheaval, with casualties of one president, one secretary, one legal counsel, one Executive Committee. In their places came a new president, new secretary, two new vice presidents, no new Executive Committee. Victorious, at least temporarily, was Founder William Childs, who last December was deposed as President and installed in theoretical passivity as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Childs regarded his Chairmanship as no honorary position. Securing a 6 to 2 control of the directors, he last week bodily removed the "usurping" executives and replaced...
...Progress of the express business, from a competition between express companies to a railroad-controlled monopoly sanctioned by the Government, began during the War. For just as the railroads were administered by the Government, so the physical properties of the express companies were sold to the then newly-formed American Railway Express Co., which was managed by a Federal administrator. In September, 1920, Government administration ended, and American Railway Express continued as an operating company whose stock was jointly held by Adams Express and American Express. American Railway Express then arranged contracts with almost every U. S. railroad (notable exception...
...Author. Born and bred in Charleston, S. C., Author Heyward comes of a long line of planters, impoverished and stripped of their feudal rights after the Civil War. Evidence of his inborn understanding of the Negro was the novel Porgy. With the aid of his wife, a playwright by profession, the novel was dramatized and most successfully produced last year by the Theatre Guild...