Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty, however, requires Panama "to consider herself in a state of war in case of any war in which the United States should be a belligerent." This clause also finds its opponents in Panama, who consider that it detracts much from the full sovereignty of the country, and it is this clause that has been so violently attacked in Europe on the ground that it violates Article XII of the League Covenant...
Attempts will be made to re-open discussions in Washington this fall, to which the U. S. is not opposed. An effort will probably be made to meet Panaman wishes by according greater trade advantages, as the U. S. regards the war clause as of the utmost importance...
Eugene A. Gilmore, Vice Governor General of the Philippines under the late Major General Leonard Wood, will not soon be replaced as Acting Governor General. Said Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War: "There will be no haste to fill the vacancy. . . the vice governor is carrying on ably...
...DRUMS OP PANIC-Martin Feinstein-Macy-Masius ($2). The aim of this nebulous narrative is to show the effect of the War not only upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram...
...Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, landed in Washington after 11,905 miles by airplane. He made 48 hops, inspected army posts in North and West. Whimsically he christened his plane The Spirit of Unrest...