Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn of the day of his funeral, members of the Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best for the final tribute to its greatest citizen. Paul John Kvale, eldest son, world war veteran and secretary to his father during his years in Congress, is the most likely candidate to succeed his father. . . . Alfred Kvale, second son, is famed as master of ceremonies and orchestra leader at the Oriental theatre in Chicago, and is an accomplished musician on several instruments. There are four other...
Apropos of same, may I not state the fact, of no particular significance but probably interesting to many, that Francis Scott Key, who, while a prisoner of war, penned those immortal lines, was, in religion, a Roman Catholic...
...Recessed for five minutes to receive Sergeant Alvin York, War hero...
...same problem has presented itself in a different form before in this country, and the same influence of Moscow was feared and condemned throughout, the land. During the war, when the I. W. W. first showed it's head in the northwestern states, it's members were promptly termed communists, menaces to organized society, and deserving of immediate exportation. It's tactics were denounced on every side. Yet those familiar with the labor conditions in the northwest, both before the war and of recent years, cannot deny that the situation, from the point of view of the worker, is much...
...Francis Asbury whose biography he has written, who founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion, an elegant liquor manual (1928). In aspect he is an extremely busy...