Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the Vermont trip, President Coolidge discussed Florida hurricane relief with his Cabinet. Five Departments were co-operating-Treasury, War, Navy, Labor, Commerce...
Frederick S. Snyder, chief of several United States food administration board divisions during the World War, and an ex-president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, will speak...
Generally speaking, the new Nationalist State continued to make good its boast of ruling all China, except Manchuria, last week. The Manchurian War Lord, Chang Hsueh-liang continued unable to join the Nationalists because of his unwilling, enforced alliance with Japan...
...growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
...John Pybus, who had never understood his sons, disowned them for slacking during the War. But that war made them rich, and him so poor that he had to sell his musty bookshop and take a job finally as porter in a suburban hotel. Here his grandson, Lance, discovers him, white-haired, philosophic, feeding clouds of friendly pigeons. Lance, gentleman bred, chafed at his parents' flashy new-wealth, scorned his father for concealing the identity of his grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles−mixup with a London tart, throes...