Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intricacies in "The Command To Love", now at the Plymouth theatre, is to be believed. Indeed, the fate of a treaty between France and Spain is seen to depend on the success Gaston, the French military attache has in his attentions to Manuela, the wife of the Spanish war minister, who is its chief opponent. The first act sees him committed to this amourous campaign in the name of patriotism; the second carries it on hilariously to the verge of a successful conclusion, and needless to say by the final curtain victory has come to the banners of love...
...memory of Lenin, however, is preserved not only by those who heard him preach the methods of a new government, but also in the history of modern Europe. Even the tremendous magnitude of American intervention in the World War did not wholly overshadow the decision on the part of the German Staff to convoy so dangerous a revolutionist back to his own country from exile. It was that event that marked the beginning of a new Russia, and the subsequent rise of governments elsewhere which felt the need of coping with a remodelled situation...
...Chicago Theological Seminary from 1895 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been president of the Hartford Seminary and professor of Systematic Theology. He has written several important books on theological subjects including "Christianity and the Progress of Man," "The Final Faith," and "Christian Ethics in the World War." He has also written several books about missionary work in South Africa where he was born, the son of a missionary. He is a constant contributor to religious and philosophical periodicals...
Before the War, Russia was one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, averaging 4,173,800 long tons yearly. But last year, Soviet Russia was a large importer of wheat, due to: 1) inadequate transportation facilities; 2) to peasant dissatisfaction, and 3) to the total crop failure in 1924. The government now projects a campaign to increase the 1929 planted acreage 8%, to modernize farm methods...
Engaged. Margaret Propert Farrand, daughter of President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; to Harry A. F. Eaton, World War veteran of Washington...