Word: y
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the war has been over ten years, there seem to be some people who are still uninformed as to the functions assigned the Y. M. C. A., as evidenced by J. B. Scott's letter in your issue...
...order of General Pershing the Y. M. C. A. set up a canteen system for the A. E. F., and its work was commended by the commanding general during the war and afterward, and an exhaustive inquiry conducted by the Army by direction of General Pershing resulted in complete disproval of such innuendos as Mr. Scott's as well as refutation of every accusation made against the association. All the work done by the Y was under general orders, describing the Y as A. E. F. Y...
...made a great financial sacrifice and served with the Y overseas for sixteen months, working long hours in a canteen and in executive positions, I know what I am talking about...
...Swampscott year he was very, very touchy. To this period belong the electric hobbyhorse and Alice Roosevelt Longworth's remark about being weaned on a dill pickle. Paul Smith's, N. Y., 1926. The 1926 vacation was the one of the great confession. Sitting in an old green wicker rocking-chair on an- Adirondack porch, Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate...
Comment. The aged Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, Conte de Romanones, several times Prime Minister of Spain, and leader of the once great but now quiescent Liberal Party, commented last week at Madrid...