Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traditions last long in the army however. In peacetimes soldiers take as much pride in good horsemanship as though they would ride to the next war on their horses...
Cabinet members must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...would not be understood as belittling the efforts of diplomacy in the avoidance of the causes of war-notably the anti-war treaties, which are so great a triumph of the present Federal Administration. Always we may count upon a saving remnant with strong and delicate imagination, moral sensitiveness and spirituality who in times of moral crisis, by their surer instinct, save us if we are to be saved. Let us give them our wholehearted support, but let us be wise in our day and generation and not put our trust in them alone...
...make war efficiency the object of all training and to maintain that efficiency during the entire period of peace...
Following a two year respite from football during the World War it took hard drilling to whip a team into shape for the 1919 season. But it was done, and the team, composed mostly of returned soldiers, came out of the Yale game 10 to 3 victor...