Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning (in 1926), the Ambassador ran into a series of complications. There was the incident of the suspected Bolshevist influence in the Mexican Government. There was the war between the Calles Administration and the Roman Catholic Church. Later there were the documents stolen from the U. S. Department of State and discovered in the custody of the Mexican Government. These documents were particularly annoying inasmuch as they contained many unpleasant reflections on the Mexican Government, but their most sensational passages were later found to be forgeries, interpolated by the same knavish hand which first had stolen them...
...Scouts, who are often pointed to as a potent reserve behind the national arms for peace or war, administered the Scout oath to their visitors. They presented twelve of the notables with belts, though General Bullard was the only dignitary slim-waisted enough to wear his gift. Governor Smith was persuaded to go fishing and promptly caught a fish four feet long. It was a wooden fish which the Scouts had previously attached to his line...
...present themselves to President Coolidge in South Dakota, visit Milwaukee (Hero Maitland's home) and be told about that city's new Maitland Airport, and visit Dayton, Ohio, scene of their preparations. Later, Lieutenant Hegenberger would return to his post in the office of Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison; Lieutenant Maitland to his as instrument chief of the Army post at Dayton...
...America does not fear us; America knows there is no possibility of war with Great Britain?then why does Washington insist on limiting our navy below the strength the Admiralty states we require? . . . [Referring to a point in the U. S. proposal, and banging his fist on the table] This is perfect nonsense!" Immediately Mr. Gibson demanded a retraction which Viscount Cecil made...
...education in The Goose-Step. But it is eight years since he has published a novel. The appearance of one* this summer might have passed unnoticed - for Sinclair Lewis and others have long since so improved upon the Sinclair journalese that what once seemed striking is now stale as War news. But some policemen in Boston found passages in the book which made them feel it should be suppressed. Recalling H. L. Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly...