Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ottawa, Edward of Wales dedicated the new Memorial Chamber in the Parliament Building, where the names of 60,000 Canadian War dead are inscribed in a massive volume...
Thus imperially favored, General Tanaka became three times War Minister between 1918 and 1923. Two years later he was chosen leader of the Seiyukai party, and amid the national financial crisis of last spring he became Premier (TIME, May 2). All his life Baron Tanaka has had the honorable reputation of being a good fellow. His powerful constitution seems to make only a favorable reaction to quantities of the finer alcoholic beverages; and he is considered one of the most gentlemanly frequenters of geisha houses in Japan...
Orville Caldwell shows how a lethargic giant of the Kentucky mountains is purged of cowardice and drunkenness through the combined efforts of his little brother (Frankie Darro), his sweetheart (Virginia Valli) and the War. The little brother's strategy makes him go to battle; the heroine's faith pulls him through; the War is the crucible. The film drags at times...
Despite his anti-British battles in his newspapers (so violent early in the War that he was accused of pro-Germanism), he owns castles in Lincolnshire, England, and in Wales. He has traveled far. He owns in the Coast Range Mountains of California a domain of hundreds of acres, luxuriously complete with castles, works of art, and modern plumbing. His wife is Millicent Willson Hearst, a onetime actress, active in many charities. They have five sons, two of whom are already old enough to function in their father's news factories. Indeed, George, the oldest (23), already controls and operates...
Married. Onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Henry S. Breckenridge, Princeton '07; to Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, onetime wife of a nephew of potent Republican jurist Elihu Root; in Washington...