Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council has been debating whether to confer "The Freedom of the City" on Sir Harry, and had heard several councilmen wax unetuous over his morale work during the World War, not forgetting to add that "his only son lies buried in a hero's grave...
...Shanghai, suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
Tuchuns. Let the Tuchuns (provincial war lords) of China form a "council of elders" to federate, if not unite, their disorganized portion of the globe into some semblance of a political entity with which the Powers can deal.?Professor Harold S. Quigley of the University of Minnesota...
Other causes brought forth were: migration of church members (Congregationalists have a "follow up" system to keep account of itinerant members); the War, "with its profound political, social and industrial disturbances"; materialism, "which has brought indifference, neglect and disregard of religious obligation to the very altars of the church"; organization assessments, which induce individual congregations to prune the "inactive" membership rolls (they are taxed according to the size of their rosters...