Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent pre-war conditions in 1913. With pride and satisfaction this report shows that in the safety contest of the world's railroads the German roads are among the very first and compare favorably with the statistics of the American railroads...
...would wait patiently, in view of the fact that France has not waited for ratification to begin paying her debt on the scale fixed by the Mellon-Berenger agreement. M. Poincaré's worry was this: that the U. S. would insist upon collecting the $400,000,000 War stocks debt, due this month, which will be refunded with the rest of France's debt to the U. S. as soon as the Mellon-Berenger agreement is ratified. The difference in annual payments is only the difference between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 (the Mellon-Berenger...
...first U. S. Senators (1907-25). As a member of the Senate Finance Committee he helped frame the Federal Reserve and Farm Loan Acts. His horizon was widened by his experience on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He became an intimate of President Wilson. After the War, his interests definitely transcended Oklahoma affairs. He had an organized boom to inherit the Wilson mantle at the National Democratic Convention of 1920. He all but joined the La Follette movement four years later, after his "not serious" desire for the Democratic nomination had been balked a second time...
Wilson victory was rewarded with the highest Cabinet post. The reward bristled with trouble. His first struggle secured government rather than banker control of the Federal Reserve. Then, as Prince of Peace, he effected anti-war pacts with 30 nations, but his Tolstoian principles were put severely to the test by the Mexican situation, by the California-Japan dispute over property ownership, and finally by the Great War. His influence over Wilson was early supplanted by Colonel House, who pulled strings, machinated quietly, buzzed around in one department after the other...
...compounds were prepared under the direction of Professor A. B. Loevenhart of Wisconsin. He believes the conquest of African sleeping sickness would be equivalent to the discovery of a continent. But more than Africa is at stake. Before the War the tsetse fly was unknown in Arabia; in recent years it has turned up there. Also strange new diseases of camels have developed in Palestine, similar to sleeping sickness; caused by trypanosomes. Finally, laymen are startled when Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas tells them that: "In prehistoric times this fly lived in the Americas and fossils of some twenty-odd species have...