Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Laurence L. Driggs, President of the American Flying Club, will be the principal speaker at this meeting. Mr. Driggs has been a close student of flying conditions during the war, and has written several articles on these conditions. The second speaker will be Colonel L. H. Drennan, who addressed the Harvard Aeronautical Society several days ago. Colonel Drennan is Air Service officer for New England and is a member, exofficio, of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Aero Club. The members of the Harvard Aero Club will meet at a place to be announced tomorrow, and will...
...told me a little witticism which ran as follows: 'If the world conflict was a war to end war, then this is a peace to end peace.' And such it would almost seem unless the United States joins the League of Nations. Take a survey of the conditions all over the world, especially in Europe. Germany's militarist party is stronger now than even in its palmiest days before the war. The people have determined to resurrect their country with such an energy that it drives them to labor ten to fourteen hours a day. Moreover, the Germany policy...
...second session had an attendance of 647, these being chiefly University students whose college career had been interrupted by the war and who wished to make up courses in order to be able to re-enter the University in good standing at the beginning of the regular College year...
...lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts to us; at the same time he points out the desirability of fostering our great dyestuff industry that was created during the war...
...talking of social unrest the President hits the nail on the head when he says that it is caused by the continued state of war; by the fact that peace is still in abeyance. Nothing that the President has said is truer than that the causes of the present turmoil "are superficial rather than deep-seated," and that the ratification of the Treaty will remove many of those causes...