Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Multilateral. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg was reported by a State Department official, last week, to be "giving some thought" to a project for unanimous signing, at Paris next fall, of his Multilateral Treaty "outlawing war as an instrument of national policy." Germany, France and Italy sent notes last week, telling their willingness to sign, and similar responses were expected from other invited states...
Traditionally, Germans cherish beer and Hooverism is not beery. Supposedly, they still dislike the Hoover who interfered with Germany's War measures in Belgium...
...heard. The Senators returned from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more...
...Formerly the 149th, a unit of the famed-in-War 42nd ("Rainbow") Division, of which General Summerall commanded the artillery brigade. Last week the "Rainbow" held a reunion at Columbus, Ohio, with addresses by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and Maj. Gen. Summerall. Lieut. Col. William P. Screws, 12th Infantry, of Baltimore, was elected president...
Said Birkenhead: "In England during the War, when millions of men were drawn away from industry for military purposes vast numbers of women were called in to take their places...