Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maine. Though its presidential vote has been chronically Republican since the Civil War, with the exception of the split-year 1912, there is a certain post-mortem parallelism between Maine's state-election votes in September and the nation's presidential votes two months later. There was, accordingly, nationwide Republican whoopee when William Tudor Gardiner, Republican, was elected Governor of Maine by an 82,000 majority over Edward C. Moran, Jr., Democrat. It was the largest G. O. P. margin in Maine history and was shared generally by the full ticket for Senator and Representatives...
Jacques de Sibour was an ace and a great ace in the War, a fact which not everyone knows who knows Jacques de Sibour. On marrying Violet Selfridge it became necessary for him to go to work in the Selfridge store for the rich old man. Thus Jacques de Sibour and his wife lived in Lansdowne House, the grand and picture-filled castle in the centre of London. When Jacques got a two weeks holiday, they toured all about the Mediterranean in a tiny airplane. When they were granted a longer vacation they flew to Abyssinia and built a house...
...been asked why, seeing that Germany is disarmed, all other countries are armed, especially France. But Germany is not completely disarmed.** She has 100,000 men, and what men! Fine men−officers and non-commissioned officers−and behind them enormous numbers who have shown in the late War what heroes they were. You cannot say that if another call to arms sounded they would not, for eight or ten years at least, be ready to come forward and fight...
...There may be one European country, not yet a League member, which has increased its armaments while all others have decreased theirs.* Its signature is attached to the [Kellogg] Pact of Paris renouncing war of aggression, but I do not know that it has renounced another kind of warfare which some regarded as a holy war,† thinking they and they alone understand the truth which they desire to impose upon other countries...
...elect a king or to recognize the legitimate claim of Prince Otto of Habsburg. Last week legitimist Hungarians were wroth to the point of oaths and tears because Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen has just appointed the leader of the electionists, Herr Julius Gombos, to be Under Secretary for War...