Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Civil servants in the highly organized Treasury Department entered in the national ledger, all on the same day last week, the following installment payments of War-debt interest and principal...
...problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...War Department was glad. Col. Stimson once a cavalry sergeant, ran the War Department in 1911-1913. Filipinos were glad. Col. Stimson has been much among them and last spring he declared he favors developing responsible Filipino's political parties, choosing the Governor General's cabinet from the majority party and using the Governor General's veto-power only to prevent dereliction. U. S. business was glad. Educated at Yale and Harvard, cultivated in Manhattan, Col. Stimson has a conservative backround and, by his pacification of Nicaragua last spring, his ability has been demonstrated. Mrs. Leonard Wood...
...Never to war actively upon each other, reserving only the right to defend themselves...
Returning Seizures. Alien properties seized during the War and still held by a U. S. custodian are now valued at $270,000,000. Many of these properties the U. S. will "buy," i. e. retain and pay for. Example: German ships, such as S. S. Leviathan (once the Vaterland...