Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holds no brief for the coal companies" (New York Herald Tribune) commented succinctly on the "gigantic conspiracies" alleged by Mr. Lewis, as follows: "Only a first-hand observer would care to hazard an opinion as to the methods used by both companies and unions in the mine wars of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; but one does not have to be an observer to feel that there is something wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over a long period of years of general prosperity can hardly find its sole cause in capitalistic conspiracies...
...fact, Lord Derby had two ambitions. The first did not count; it was to be Prime Minister. When the chance came he turned his back on it. A life of political ambiguity had evidently settled his pristine urge. During the war he became Director General of Recruiting and author of the famed Derby Scheme, which gave the nation's manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain...
...Eliot, now 39 years old, was born in St. Louis. His education was wrought at Harvard, the Sorbonne, the Harvard Graduate School, Merton College, Oxford. During the War, he functioned as assistant editor of The Egoist, récherché London magazine. Today he is editor of The Criterion, a neoteric quarterly of pronounced modernist tendencies...
...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during the War...
...Joffe was one of Soviet Russia's foremost diplomats and represented his country in many lands, the most notable, perhaps, being China, where he was able to prepare the way for Bolshevist influence in the civil war still raging...