Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill by Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee extending the time limit for War bonus applications to 1930; sent it to the Senate...
...loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this attack, the President assumed a role of arbitrator between Congress and the Army engineers who had told the Administration what to recommend...
...Passed a bill raising Civil War widows' pensions to $40 per month (from $30); sent it to the Senate...
...another of the galaxy of 1918 has passed into history. The war is moving farther and farther into the past; it is unfortunate that the death of one of its heroes should bring the revival of the terms "despoilers" and "barbarians" that one finds in the Diaz dispatch. The hatreds of a decade ago are slow enough in dissolving without the resurrection of the epithets of that time...
...Bucher, of the Bureau of Commercial Economics, an international organization for the promotion of mutual understanding between nations, will give a lecture illustrated by motion pictures on "Germany Since the War" at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Living Room of the Union. He saw service overseas during the World War, and after the Armistice spent much time in Central Europe doing relief work. He is also a newspaper correspondent...