Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the works that "A. E." has published are the following: "Homeward", "Songs By the Way", "The Earth Breath", "Literary Ideals in Ireland", "The Nuts of Knowledge", "The Mask of Apollo", "Deirdre", "By Still Waters", "The Hero in Man", "The Renewal of Youth", and "Gods of War...
Explaining this remark, Rennie Smith, a British Labor member of Parliament and also Directing Secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, said in an interview yesterday that Great Britain had already begun to disarm, and that it would not be directly concerned with America's way of handling the problem...
...late 'teens he acquired a Franklin air cooled automobile which soon became his passion. Cheerfully greasy he dismembered it and screwed it together again. Of late years aviation caught his mechanical mind's eye and he learned flying, planning to commute by air between Newport and Manhattan. The war machinery of ships engrossed him in 1917-18 when he progressed from U. S. ensign to lieutenant and served actively in foreign waters. He loaned to the government for the war his Winchester, fastest large yacht (about 35 miles per hour) yet designed to carry man seaward from the noise...
Died. Douglas Haig, 66, first Earl Haig, 20th Laird of Bemerside, Com- mander-in-chief of the British armies in the War; in London; of heart failure...
...Robinson & Co. Inc. of Manhattan. The four already have contracts for $100,000,000 worth of work in the U. S., South America, Spain. At their head is Dwight Parker Robinson, 58, who, as first president of the International Shipbuilding Corp., developed Hog Island ship yards during the War. Before that he was Stone & Webster's master of engineering and construction activities. And before that he earned de- grees from both Harvard (A.B.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...