Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read the instruction leaflet and note: a) that discharge papers should accompany applications; b) that, if discharge papers are lost, memory may serve in filling out the blank but that the War & Navy Departments and the Marine Corps will dislike it if you ask them to tell you when, where or how you served...
...misuse of words I Who is a murderer ? Is it a man who by his courageous action saved the lives of many more than 50,000 Jews ? If Schwartzbard was what you so prominently titled him, then all those who risk their lives for a lofty principle in a war, they also would be murderers. The incidents of this affair were also a war by the butcher Petlura and his blood-thirsty gangs against an innocent and defenseless people. Any person who would get rid of such an inhuman, barbarous individual is a hero...
...Wickham Steed, British editor, a White House caller of last fortnight, left with President Coolidge a world peace plan involving boycott by the U. S. of the aggressor nation in any war. After study, President Coolidge indicated that he viewed with alarm even passive U. S. participation in foreign wars...
...Some 5,500,000 soldiers, sailors & marines who served the U. S. at home or abroad in the War, were voted an honorarium by Congress three years ago, over the veto of President Coolidge. Some 3,100,000 of the soldiers - or their relicts or dependents-have collected this "bonus," as it was called in the press, this World War Adjusted Compensation, as it was called in the Act. Some 40,000 soldiers filled out their applications incorrectly, got them back again, and have since failed to return corrected applications to the Adjutant General's Office. Some...
...From coast to coast and frontier to frontier the U. S. people hallowed the memory of their 126,000 War dead. In the national Valhalla at Arlington a granite Cross of Sacrifice was dedicated by Canada to those U. S. soldiers who lost their lives while fighting with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. The great cross, 30 feet in height was unveiled by Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S., and accepted by Frank Billings Kellogg, U. S. Secretary of State, in a moving ceremony. Many dignitaries were present...