Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrapping Mrs. Coolidge in a horseblanket on the grandstand of the Pine Ridge fairgrounds, the President first beheld a Sioux pageant-including war-painted savages, bareback riding and children dressed as beets, carrots, cabbages. He received presents from the Misses Nancy Redcloud, Rosa Red-hair, Jessie Marrowbone, Mary Little Iron, Jennie Blue Horse, Emma No Horse and several chiefs...
...Unknown Soldier buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is one of 70 men whose names are all known. Such is the efficiency of the grave's registration corps of the War Department-99.9% perfect. The War Department last week announced that for the 77,771 death in the A. E. F., 77,701 burials were now recorded. Of these, 46,284 bodies were returned to the U. S.; 30,812 remained in Europe; 605 were sent elsewhere. At the time of the report, only four more bodies remained to be sent home from Europe in compliance with...
General John Joseph Pershing, U. S. A., made a new kind of announcement last week-a publisher's announcement. He had not written a War novel, nor an autobiography, nor even a volume of poems. But the American Battle Monument Commission, of which he is chairman, had completed its official guide to and history of the campaigns of the A. E. F. The book was ready for the public at 75? the copy. Address: Superintendent of Public Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington...
...army, about to invade a foreign land, invariably sends ahead of it small advance detachments to sound out the disposition of the enemy. Last week, though the U. S. had not declared war on France, a vanguard of 590 U. S. warriors landed at Cherbourg from the S. S. Republic and S. S. President Harding. They were met by the opposite of an enemy but the temper of their reception nevertheless furnished their alert commanders with hints of what the main contingent might look forward to next month...
Significance. The mere fact that the trade treaty was hailed in Paris and Berlin as signifying an improvement of political relations and as giving a new impetus to the prosperity of each, speaks volumes for the distance the two onetime enemies have traveled since the War. Up to 1914, trade between the two countries was regulated by the Treaty of Frankfort, which ended the war of 1870-71. Since the World War, there has been no well-defined commercial accord, trade being subject to a general agreement, except in the case of specific articles, on the basis of the customs...