Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work's career as a large-scale organizer began during the War, when he gave up his private practice and was put in charge of the medical aspects of the Army draft. Will H. Hays selected Dr. Work to organize the farm vote in the Harding campaign and later retained his services...
...issued to 14 nations a fresh draft of his famed multilateral treaty to outlaw war, as revised to suit France's reservations relative to League of Nations obligations...
...work of Hearst in stirring up the Spanish-American War needs no reiteration. After the war, Hearst's Journal bitterly attacked President McKinley; one editorial said: "If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then killing must be done." When President McKinley was assassinated, Hearst's enemies pointed to this editorial as a contributory cause of the assassination. Writer Winkler defends Hearst on the grounds that he knew nothing about the editorial until after it was printed...
Just as the War began Dr. Albee was demonstrating original methods of bone grafting in Germany, England and France. He kept on in the French military hospitals, and later in those of the A. E. F. His invention of replacing, by bone grafts, parts of the spine diseased by tuberculosis goes by his name...
CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...