Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War he has commanded the New York, been Governor of the Virgin Islands, Director of Naval Intelligence at Washington. Two years ago he was appointed again to an active service post as Commander of the Yangtze Patrol Force...
...outbreak of the World War he was a Commander on the Wilmington. The following year he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy, which post he left in 1918 to become District Commander at Brest, France. Later the same year he was sent as a U. S. representative to the Prisoner of War Conference at Berne, Switzerland...
...period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have been won by the U. S. Just before the red shadow of war darkened all sport, the English four took the title back to England where it remained until Milburn, Hitchcock, Webb and Louis Stoddard regained it in 1921. International polo is not played every year. It involves too much preparation, too much expense. England challenged in 1924 and a team identical...
...left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last week with a declaration of intentions. In them may be traced the influences of a career that included free-lance writing, editorship of the Western Electric News; War correspondence "on space" (the New York Herald Tribune), punching player piano rolls in a New Jersey factory, music critic of the World...
Canadians Best. In Toronto, Commander Byrd addressed the Canadian Aeronautical Association ingratiatingly: "Canadians generally make the best aviators in the world." As proof, he cited War figures...