Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak."- To cap the ceremony, Rosebud Robe (soon to appear in vaudeville as "the most beautiful Indian maiden in the world") placed upon White Chief & Protector Coolidge's brow a war bonnet of 200 feathers. Nineteen of the warriors who had helped kill General Custer's men on June 25, 1876, cheered vigorously...
...would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that all was said and done. New Jersey Republicans actually formed a Coolidge Draft Club, sayng: "We draft soldiers in time of war; why should we not draft public officials in time of peace...
Said the New York Herald-Tribune: "General Wood was the most eminent American soldier since the Civil War...
Congress has already passed legislation approving in principle the payment of each reserve officer at a yearly rate equivalent to one-twelfth of what would be his yearly salary in the naval rank which he has been certified as fit to hold in time of war. Thus a merchant officer who would be made a Lieutenant Commander in war-time will receive $250 per year during his whole reservist period, and, in addition, regulation pay during periods devoted exclusively to "training duty...
Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...