Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Failure completely to demobilize after the World War...
...war? You made war and you made it well, but it never touched...
...soon as warranted." Up jumped Francis Edward McGovern, onetime (1911-15) Governor of Wisconsin, to denounce "as soon as warranted" for a mouthful of "weasel words." Up likewise jumped William Mitchell, stormy onetime assistant chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. Given the platform, he shouted; "The next war will be fought by getting at the vital centres of the enemy. This must be done by aviation. Today we are being strangled. I favor ending the situation. I favor the creation of a department under a separate Cabinet officer at once...
Elections. Cheering and chairing followed the election of Edward Elwell Spafford, Manhattan lawyer, as National Commander. He is the first Navy man so honored?a lieutenant-commander of a Mediterranean torpedo flotilla in the War. While being cheered he held in his arms small Jay Ward, aged 7, from Philadelphia, "typical American boy," new official Legion mascot. After his speech of acceptance, Commander Spafford was said to have slipped away alone to stand at salute beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...dauntless women of America who felt the cruel hand of war are not made of stuff which misguided Communists can mold or impracticable pacifists can band to their dangerous conceptions. I hate war as much as any man alive, but there are things even worse than war, and women know what some of them are even better than the rest...