Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Veterans of Foreign Wars ia composed exclusively of men who have seen foreign service with American forces during time of war and hence is different from all other ex-service organizations in that we still continue to obtain new possible members and are a continuing body...
...straightbacks and one armchair-for picture-taking. President Coolidge, in one of his new grey double-breasted suits, sat in the armchair, motioning short, white-haired Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg to his right side. In the end chair on that side, well-built, well-dressed, young-looking Secretary of War Davis sat. Secretary Andrew William Mellon (Treasury), got the chair on the President's immediate left, of course. He kept his chin up, with his lean, close-cropped, snowy head cocked alertly until the camera clicked. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, physically the biggest Cabinet man, betrayed camera-shyness...
Leaving the state of the Army to Major-General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, who reported conventionally that it was good, and the state of the air to Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred...
...somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding's "Back to normalcy," embarrassingly illiterate but far more euphonious than "Back to normality" would have been...
...absolutely unaccountable for his acts ... a 'superpatriot' who was a Russian for a long time, then posed as a German, finally coming out a Lithuanian." Of himself Pilsudski said, modestly: "I walked the floor the entire night after hearing of the Lithuanian mobilization, dreading the horrors of war and fearing on the other hand to let my people suffer invasion through delaying military action. Finally, I decided to put the entire matter into the hands of the League of Nations." Meanwhile, at Kovno, Lithuanian capital, Premier Valdemaras told newsgatherers that Polish troops were menacing Lithuania with "intimidatory...