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Word: war (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Page stopped reading, up came the Representatives' hands to clap as loudly as they could for a slim, smiling little lady in neat black who stepped briskly to the chair-Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, daughter of a cotton miller, widow of a Congressman, Red Cross nurse in the War, thrice-elected Representative of Lowell, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Time | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Your issue of the third of October contained the rumor that the so called Harvard Socialist Club or members of that organization intend to stage an Anti War, Anti Army, Anti West Point demonstration. For obvious reasons such a demonstration at such a time would be in extreme bad taste. In some measure the University acts as host to West Point, the action of these socialists, however much publicity it might gain them, would add little to Harvard's reputation for sportsmanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dogmatic Purltanism Again | 10/5/1929 | See Source »

...bringing order out of chaos. In his acceptance of the Dawes plan, his guiding interest at Locarno, and his influence in obtaining Germany's entrance into the League of Nations he showed himself to be a great German patriot with a real understanding of the needs of a war torn Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PASSING OF A LEADER | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...little more than a decade he has been able to almost wipe out a world wide anti German feeling which had been fanned to a white heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PASSING OF A LEADER | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

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