Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the new flood-prevention works can be begun, two more legal moves are necessary: 1) To $10,000,000 which the War Department has on hand, Congress must add $15,000,000, to make up a first instalment of $25,000,000 on the $325,000,000 authorized for the whole program. The $15,000,000 will doubtless be inserted in the Second Deficiency Bill when that measure reaches the Senate this week or next. 2) The new three-man U. S. Flood Control Commission (see below) must study conflicting plans for the work and report to the President...
...Legion of the Condemned" is an airplane picture of war day, directed by the same man who directed the filming of "Wings," another picture dealing with flying and the war. According to critics, the directing of this production by William Wellman, and the writing of it by J. M. Saunders, author also of "Wings," makes it one of the better war pictures. Gary Cooper plays the leading male role, that of Gale Price, and the feminine lead is taken by another new-comer to the Paramount ranks. Fay Wray...
DEAD LOVERS ARE FAITHFUL LOVERS- Frances Newman-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Curiously enough this book is not tedious. The first half concerns itself with the gold negligees, white ribbons, and creamy laces a pre-war Southern bride arranges for the retention of her husband's physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce...
Here is a book concerned almost wholly with problems of war which nevertheless makes very absorbing reading for the laymen. Devoting but three well written chapters to the uninteresting youth of Jackson, Mr. Tate almost immediately swings his hero into action--at West Point, in the Mexican War, and finally in the Civil War which was to bring him his great fame and his death from pneumonia shortly after his great flank march at Chancellorsville...
While the various armies engaged in the current Chinese war maneuver under the leadership of rival generals with unpronounceable names, the policy of watchful waiting Japan has had to adopt since the Peace Conference took Shantung away from her begins to show sings of developing into more aggressive tactics. Nine years after the treaty, the rest of the world that retains any interest whatsoever in China has become thoroughly disillusioned as to the possibility of that country developing a peaceful regime unaided. So when the time comes, as appearance indicate it will before long, for intervention to be repeated...