Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the War Department, President Coolidge learned that it would be inadvisable to send the Army football team from West Point, N. Y., to play Stanford University in California this autumn as he had suggested...
...When he came to the U. S. from Paris in September, U. S. Ambassador- to-France Myron Timothy Herrick brought with him the so-called Briand that the U. S. and France agree never to war on one another. Ambassador Herrick left this document at the State Department and went home to Cleveland, ill. The State Department has been conning the Briand document. President Coolidge has been thinking about it. Last week, Editor E. G. Burkham of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal, close friend of Ambassador Herrick and newspaper partner of his son, Parmely Herrick, called at the White House...
Relief. President Coolidge, through the War Department, ordered Army planes to reconnoitre from Boston, but their work was delayed by fogs. The Red Cross sent emergency men from Washington...
...President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence in the hearts of Statesmen Quezon and Osmena...
...written a sketch of life at his alma mater for a current magazine, College Humor,--but the name has no bearing on his article. For it is not a humorous article, nor does it have that mixture of sharpness and sentiment which marked the time when "the tide of war rolled up the sands where Princeton played." He writes not now as a very recent graduate, but from the distance of over a decade; not from the inside, but as an outsider wondering what the inside, is like now, and throwing over the past all the pathos of distance...