Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September, 1917, he was elected President of the Petrograd (Leningrad) Soviet; and the next year, as the first Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he conducted the peace negotiations for the Russians at Brest-Litovsk. He refused to sign the treaty that the Germans drew up, resigned and became Commissar for War, in whiqh capacity he organized the Red Army, now said to be the largest in the world...
...room in the Ministry of War at Bucharest, capital of Rumania, M. Manoilescu, onetime Under-Secretary of Finance, was last week put on trial before a court martial, charged with conspiracy against the throne. Earlier in the month (TIME, Nov. 7), M. Manoilescu was arrested while in possession of letters from former Crown Prince Carol to various political leaders in Rumania, including Prime Minister Jan Bratiano...
Colonel Vladiscu presided, as usual, over the military court, being assisted by two majors and two captains. A heavy cordon of troops was thrown around the War Office, armed sentries challenging all seekers of admission to the courtroom. Only the witnesses, lawyers and newspaper reporters were allowed...
Another industry which requires the horse is the military; a major feature of the week was the tests for army animals. The first evening Major R. S. Timmis, Canada, rode Bucephalus (name of the war horse of Alexander the Great) to win an international cup, made in London for George III, latterly presented by Jan Ciechanowski, Polish Minister. Poland possessed itself of the important International Military Trophy in jumping contest against U. S., Canada, France...
...There are so many candidates [for teaching positions] that there is danger of losing much of the ground gained during and since the War in making salaries more nearly match the work done," warned Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde of Boston University's school of education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent...