Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy in President McKinley's cabinet. With Civilian Roosevelt as lieutenant colonel, Dr. Wood as Colonel Wood organized the "Rough Riders" from prominent athletes of eastern universities, cowboys, rancheros and Indians, for service in the Spanish-American War. Dr. Wood's talk last week was in advocacy of a $2,000,000 fund now being quietly collected in the U. S. to alleviate, study and prevent leprosy. Chief experiments will be conducted on the Philippines pest island of Culion, where Dr. H. Windsor Wade has charge...
Retiring from the prize ring, he bought a health farm in Summit, N. J. The farm went to rack and ruin while Mr. Welsh went off to war...
...shrewd investment, the du Pont activity had a strengthening effect on the stock market last week, as did the news that General Motors profits for the first six months of 1927 were $129,250,207, the largest net earnings of any U. S. corporation since the abnormal World War profits...
...dozen years since one of the most popular young men in the U. S. began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
...Author. Short, slim, quiet, Dillwyn Parrish lives in Claymont, Del., the young bachelor master of an old homestead, exchanging visits often with the sister whose bookishness revived his interest in life after a bad time in the War...