Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of War, General Luis Delle-piane...
Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin, daughter of the late Editor Horace Greeley of the oldtime New York Tribune, in an open letter to "My Dear Sisters of the South": "Do not think me intrusive in speaking to you, but recall how my father, Horace Greeley, came down after the Civil War, to bail your President, Jeff Davis, and returned to face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown...
...standard" was set during the Wilson administration, by two War factors: a) the cessation of immigration; b) the removal of U. S. industry's foreign competition...
Cried Liberalism's David at the Tory Goliath: "This Anglo-French agreement is a renewal of the old policy of military arrangements which precipitated the World War. It is designed not to limit armaments but to increase them. It means more submarines for France and more cruisers for ourselves. It also means that France is to maintain hereafter a great force of trained reserves which will be a far mighter army than she had before the War. By this compromise we have antagonized two great friendly powers, Italy and the United States...
Because General George Washington fought the Revolutionary War to a smart finish, Americans thought he would make a good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...