Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief business items of the convention included: passage of a resolution criticizing those who criticize the U. S. Government; the decision to seek Government aid for women War veterans disabled during their War-time services; the election of Miss Lena Hitchcock, of Washington, D. C., as president, succeeding Miss Helen Douglas of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Hitchcock, during the War, was therapist reconstruction aid at a base hospital, taught handicrafts to disabled soldiers...
...Midst the war's great curse stands the Red Cross Nurse She's the rose of no man's land."- -WAR BALLAD...
...Stillwater, Mass., the Last Man's Club was holding its last dinner. There were really three Last Men-Peter Hall, 89; Charles Lockwood, 86; John Goff, 85. Sixty-six years ago they had marched off to the Civil War with Company B of the First Minnesota Regiment. Many soldiers of Company B fell at their first battle-Bull Run-many at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at other battles that are history to almost everyone today but are memories to the old men of the Last Man's Club. In 1886 there were only 34 Company B members surviving...
...Richard Curie, literary executor of Joseph Conrad, testified for son Conrad, saying: "Arthur returned from the War a changed man mentally...
...masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their country utterly ravished by German armies under the great Feld-marshall August von Mackensen; but they never wavered from adherence to the Allies and, as a result, Rumania was expanded by the peacemakers into the largest Balkan country. Thus King Ferdinand, although never...