Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...include about half of what is now British Columbia and Alberta, provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The Democrats won the election, did not get the "fifty-four forty" line (it was settled at 49°) and also did not fight, having on their hands the Mexican War...
...Stratton has been President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1923, has specialized in physics and was onetime (1901-23) Director of the National Bureau of Standards. In 1895, while teaching physics at the University of Chicago, he joined the Illinois Naval Militia and during the Spanish-American War was (May-Nov. 1898) Lieutenant Stratton...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
Acrid Deputy Cachin, per contra, is under sentence for "in citing desertion." soldiers of the Republic to desertion." However, the it was only to the Moroccan war (TIME, May 11, War 1925, et from seq.) and not the World War from which M. Chachin exhorted soldiers to desert. So he too has been . . . allowed almost two years grace...
...single one of our friends is arrested, we will pass from words to acts. If the Government wants war, it will have...