Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World War...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Secretary Rt. Hon. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans...
Broken in health and finances, Mr. Bellanca came to the U. S. His relatives helped him secure funds to build a monoplane in Brooklyn. He taught himself to fly, set up an aviation school. During the War, he lost a contract with the British government because he did not have the money to swing it. He designed planes for a Maryland concern until it went bankrupt...
...Next day, having returned to Chicago and consulted his wife, he telegraphed his acceptance of the presidency of Oberlin. He is the first non-theologian to hold this office. His name and accomplishments: Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, 46, professor of romance languages at the University of Chicago since 1916, War-time teacher of French to doughboys, author of Army French as well as Dante-Poet and Apostle, graduate of Amherst College. Some say President-elect Wilkins looks and thinks like the late Woodrow Wilson...
Died. Clara Louise Burnham, 73, author, daughter of Dr. George F. Root, famed composer of many civil war songs including "Just Before the Battle, Mother" in Bailey's Island, Me.; from heart disease...