Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outbreak of War, the State Department sent him to Paris as special assistant to the U. S. ambassador there. He was placed in charge of the German and Austro-Hungarian civilian prisoners in France. In 1917 President Wilson made him Minister to the Netherlands, an important between-the-war-lines post. His last diplomatic service was secretary-general for the Washington Arms Conference of 1921. Proud is he of the 25 different occasions upon which he has acted as charge d'affaires ad interim, of the many minor treaties he has signed...
...Allous Messieurs, I am ready." said M. Poincarč, and an ether mask soon covered his grizzly white whiskers. As the great War-time President of France sank into somnolence, he did not feel Surgeons Marion and Gosset fiddling about below his bladder...
...Shaw began his career as a half-time hand in a cotton mill. He became the most ruggedly potent figure in British textile trade unionism. He recently turned up in the Empire's new Labor cabinet as His Majesty's Right Honorable Secretary of State for War. Last week generals fumed, colonels smarted, and subalterns rolled out rich round oaths-all because War Minister Shaw, at a rally of Socialist constituents, had bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire can afford...
...incriminating documents, the report of an investigation which Il Duce had ordered into the affairs of one of the Fascist Government's leading fiscal advisers, the Chemical & Dye Tycoon of Northern Italy, potent Deputy Ernesto Belloni, recently Mayor of Milan, repeatedly assigned as an Italian expert at the War Debt aid Reparations conferences. Evidently the report on Signer Belloni was damning. With characteristic decision Il Duce dashed on paper an order dismissing the Dye Tycoon "from every political and public activity, indefinitely...
Zonite Products Corp. (Zonite, chlorine antiseptic, derived from the Carrel-Daiken solution used during the War. Its advertisements stress "feminine hygiene." Company has 51 % interest in Larvex, moth destroyer, is said to be planning a toothpaste.) Net income, first half 158,696 Net income, 18 mo. ended December...