Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis Aleck Craig, field Artillery, U. S. Army, Professor of Military Science and Tactics. He will serve in this capacity while detailed at the University by the War Department. Major Graig has been an assistant professor in the University since...
Program: further reduction of the British World War Debt to the U. S. should be made, and this reduction credited as wiping out the Confederate Debt to Britons...
Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front line trenches and was cited three times for bravery...
...shot dead by a German officer and the shooting of Nurse Cavell followed. Many Britishers and Americans, as well as Germans, regret that Dawn was ever filmed. It is too late now to decide whether a charming woman who helped 210 prisoners to escape should be executed for war purposes and re-executed for the benefit of cinemagoers. Most of Dawn is restrained and dignified; the performance of Miss Thorndike is sincerely beautiful. Among those who have cheered for Dawn is Pacifist George Bernard Shaw...
...Tsarist régime. The picture was a Soviet government production and as such was intended as an advertisement of the home country rather than as the dire panorama it might otherwise have been. Its story-that of a young Russian peasant lost in the shuffle of war and disaster-excited the attention of neither the director, Vyesolod Pudovkin, nor those who viewed his efforts. The peasant and his troubles were forgotten when the chance came to show flashes of Lebedew's stock exchange interspersed with glimpses of soldiers in a muddy trench. The hero of the play...