Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whoever writes your China articles cannot have followed the Nanking affair with the slightest appreciation of what it was about. There was no firing in reprisal upon Nanking nor has there been by U. S. war vessels upon any Chinese port during the whole period of the present confused conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul...
There was no further firing upon Nanking by men-of-war. Your statement as printed certainly presents exactly the view desired by these clever propagandists of the Chinese communists...
...TIME [Sept. 12] I was pleased to read the article you had on the late National Encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans at Detroit. You seemed to see something in us which the average man in the U. S. has missed for the past years. . . . The men you saw at Detroit had an average term of service of 16 months, compared with eleven for the Civil War and nine for the World War. A great many of them were regulars, and also large numbers were not in the Spanish War proper, being too young to successfully lie about their...
...Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi colleagues on the tri-state executive board of flood control. After the call, Governor Martineau said: "We found President Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor Martineau, along came Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania, to extend invitations for this and that and to judge for himself of Mr. Coolidge's political intentions. When he left he was saying: "Hughes . .. Hoover . . . Dawes . . . Lowden...
...were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre. Doubtless aware that a large percentage of the legionaries in Paris last week were men who had not so much as got overseas during the War, Captain Piot wrote...