Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elections, Resolutions. To be commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, succeeding U. S. Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, was elected John J. Garrity of Chicago. Other officers elected: W. L. Grayson, vice com-mander-in-chief; Peter O'Shea, surgeon general; Allen P. Wilson, chaplain in chief...
...means the only, ny no means the most important, although the most famed, land engagement in the Spanish-American -war. Other simultaneous battles were at El Caney (U. S. victory), Aguadores (U. S. defeat). Had the 500 Rough Riders been elsewhere, the capture of Santiago would have been made by the remaining 15,000 infantry and cavalry...
...Spanish War lieutenant in the 31st Michigan Infantry...
Evacuation. The Japanese Government, feeling that the risks of disorders in Shantung Province had been removed by the shifting of the Chinese civil war front to the Yangtze Valley, ordered its troops to evacuate Tsinan and Tsingtao in that province...
Elections. To succeed President Whitman, the Association unanimously elected Silas Hardy Strawn, potent Chicago corporation lawyer, lately a presidential emissary to war-tangled China. Secretary Mac-Cracken and Treasurer John H. Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., were reelected...