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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately, we have much better regular army authority than General Bullard on the conduct of American Negro troops in war. Colonel James A. Moss, a graduate of West Point, who served 18 years with Negro troops and commanded the 372d Infantry in France, says: "If properly trained and instructed, the Negro makes as good a soldier as the world has ever seen. The history of the Negro in all of our wars, including our Indian campaigns, shows this. He is by nature of a happy disposition, he is responsive and tractable, he is very amenable to discipline, he has faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Impression and Belief | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...proposal to reduce the tariff for British-grown sugar was passed, 190 to 98. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill claimed that it was absolutely necessary to protect the West Indian and other sugar industries or see them go bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON WEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations): Parliament's Week: Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

Hankow, about 500 miles due west from Shanghai on the Yang-tsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Hupeh. Despite the efforts of Tuchun Hsia Yao-nan to maintain quiet, an ugly situation rapidly developed. Foreign women, children and missionaries left the city on the eve of an attack by rioters on the British Volunteer Armory and Japanese shops. The British used machine-guns on the rioters; many were killed and wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Confusion | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

Samuel Adams Edwin Booth Charles Bulfmch Horace Bushnell George .Rogers Clark John Singleton Copley Dorothea Lynde Uix Cyrus West Field William L. Garrison Nathaniel Greene Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson John Jay John Paul Jones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fame | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...north. It was partly because of such deposits, partly because of the possible commercial value of airplane depots, that MacMillan, last week, asked the U. S. State Department to inform him what attitude the Government might take toward any unmapped territory he might discover north and west of Ellesmere Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Arctic | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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