Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world. Bluejackets remember that it was not long before he became a mighty oarsman, football player, broad-jumping champion of the Navy. After helping to occupy Vera Cruz in 1912, he learned to fly, was assigned to the spectacular Esquadrille Candinana on the Italian front during the World War. He has long been a friend of Commander Byrd, who put him in charge of the Spitzbergen base during the North Pole flight...
...Spanish blood in his veins, is more of a daredevil and less of a technician than the other members of the crew. He has driven racing automobiles as well as the winning airplane in the 1921 Pulitzer Cup. He taught Canadians to fly before the U. S. entered the War. He served in both the U. S. Army and Navy...
...last week, Filipinos had an opportunity to cheer, to triumph. For word came that President Coolidge himself had suggested that the Islands be taken from the jurisdiction of the War Department, that military control be replaced by civilian control. Along with this news, however, came the saddening information that the President thought that the Department of the Interior would be the logical guardian of the Islanders. This plan did not at all please the Filipinos, who saw; in it a step toward making the Islands perpetually a U. S. territory. Filipinos want to be put under the State Department...
During Charles Evans Hughes' term as Secretary of State there was a movement to take the Islands out of War Department jurisdiction and turn them over to the State Department. Secretary Hughes expressed no eagerness for the additional responsibility, and the idea was finally dropped. Last fortnight when General Wood called on the President at Custer Park (TIME, July 4) the transfer scheme was presumably revived, and shortly following the conference the President made his transfer suggestion...
...July 31, 1914 (the day before Germany declared war on Russia) Prince Oscar, then a youth of 26, utterly disgusted the Court by espousing in morganatic union a comparative nobody: Ina Maria, Countess of Brassewitz. That a royal prince should look no higher was considered in the very poorest taste. That Prince Oscar and his countess should settle down in unobtrusive happiness to the duty of rearing children (four), was deemed commendable but dull...