Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young girl when the Civil War came. A hero of the day was a young German named Henry Villard, war correspondent for the New York Tribune. After the war she married him. Chance made him the representative of some bondholders in Western railroads. Brains and force made him president of the Northern Pacific Railroad and a rich...
Vexed, Chairman Thomas V. O'Connor, of the Shipping Board, denounced this as Rotterdamaging "foreign' propaganda" put forth (he said) for ulterior purposes in a foreign rate war. Even when the sales are effected-probably months hence-the Shipping Board will not at once dissolve. The Shipping Board's ultimate purpose is to build up U. S. shipping. Bids of every form must carry certain guarantees of performance by the purchasers. Any one buying the Palmetto Line, for example, must guarantee 24 round voyages per annum between South Atlantic ports and Continental Europe for five years...
Getting the troops out of the trenches was statesmanship's task in the last decade. Getting the U. S. out of businesses into which the War forced it has been a task which President Coolidge has set himself. Congress changed the latter, last spring, to facilitate getting the U. S. out of the shipping business, and President Coolidge appointed new men to the Shipping Board-men not enamored of government operation. Since these changes, the Shipping Board has met to consider its duty. Last week it voted to sell the three large merchant fleets remaining under U. S. ownership...
...author of Revolt in the Desert, famed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. He, with a modesty not inferior to Lindbergh's, has rejected all the honors and decorations which Britons sought to heap upon him in reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived at San'a, the Capital of the Imamate of Yemen...
President of France Gaston Doumergue stood like a florid Neptune on the bridge of the destroyer Jaguar, so-called fastest war boat in the world. Steamed past the Jaguar in a double line six miles long 80 war boats, of which 42 have been completed since the close of the War To End War...