Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find it amusing or profitable to judge each race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite of the gloomy presages...
...came the entrance of the United States into the war, and Hoover's appointment first as Food Administrator in this country, then as director of food supplies for the Allied Powers. In 1921 came the Harding Administration and Hoover's appointment as Secretary of Commerce, a post which he has now held seven years...
...enemy of the farmer. And of this Hoover we continue to hear--and shall hear more as the time for the convention nears. The debate turns partly upon Hoover's opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill and partly upon the famous dollar-wheat decision of the Food Administration in war days. Hoover makes no bones of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill but his friends insist that he had nothing to do with the dollar-wheat decision, and cite evidence to prove their case. That evidence is now being carried to the tribunal of the nation--the people...
...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...
...practiced law in Boston since 1894 and is vice-president of the firm of Ropes., Gray, Boyden, and Perkins. Mr. Curtis is also a Boston lawyer. Mr. Smith was with the American Mission to negotiate peace as counsel to the Treasury Department, and at the close of the Great War was prominent in establishing Hungary's finances on a firm basis. Mr. Adams was elected treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College in 1898. He was an amateur skipper on the yacht "Resolute", which won the International Yacht Races...