Word: blackjack
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...speaker was General John J. Pershing. It is hard to think of military men except as experts in their trade; just such a feeling accounts for the tradition that no professional solider be appointed Secretary of War. What are we to think then, when a fighting man like "Blackjack" Pershing says: "The world does not seem to learn from experience. It would appear that the lessons of the last six years be enough to convince everybody of the danger of nations striding up and down armed to the teeth. Ours is not an aggressive nation. We want no territory...