Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearing minute pencil notations. A microscope revealed four names: "Weeks," "Andy," du Pont," "Butler." Two of these names the Committee could understand. In his testimony Mr. Hays had mentioned sending $25,000 of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds to the late John W. Weeks, at that time Secretary of War. Another $75,000 had gone to U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont, to meet a note due in Manhattan. Mr. Hays had not mentioned "Andy" or "Butler...
...only U. S. Navy flier to qualify officially as an "ace" in the War was David Sinton Ingalls, a quizzical, shock-headed grandnephew of William Howard Taft. He left his class at Yale to fly and was 18 years old when the Armistice was signed. Ace Ingalls went back to college with his decorations in his pocket and applied himself to the harder heroics of graduating and getting a law degree. Then he married, was twice a father, practiced law quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself...
Then, as with many another War flier, "air fever" once more laid hold of Ace Ingalls. Last week, news leaked out that he and Heraclio Alfaro, a Cleveland college instructor formerly with the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company in Cleveland, were building a plane of secret design, trying to win the Guggenheim Foundation's $100,000 prize for aeronautical progress. At the same time, people learned that Ace Ingalls was on his hometown Chamber of Commerce's aviation committee, helping to make Cleveland a bigger & better airport. Other retired fliers knew how Ace Ingalls felt when, quizzed...
...With two-thirds of the population engaged in agriculture, their production is now back at pre-War levels, and the harvest of 1927 exceeded that...
Likewise, the Teutonic love of music has endured the war, and persists in innumberable festivals, and still more noticeably in the breast of one of the fallen mighty. Prince Joachim Albrecht, composer and orchestra conductor, has followed Count Keyserling and Herr Ludwig across the sea, and has stirred up rather more of a storm than his predecessors. Unless his much-discussed concert materializes. America will miss a first-hand view of royalty, and the coiners of clever generalities on racial characteristics will lose a perfectly good example...