Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chandler advances that militarism is not synonymous with conscription; that in Switzerland we have the latter without the former; that General Pershing is demonstrably not biased by his profession, that we must have an "adequate" army; that a democracy is immune from militarism...
...course General Pershing advocates a smaller standing army and a less militaristic training, and any other concession that will make way for the vital principle of conscription. What does Mr. Chandler thing an intelligent militarist would do in the same position: sacrifice the chance of conscription to the chance of a larger standing army? Hardly...
Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...
...first general meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business began last night, when some 40 or 50 visiting delegates from schools of business all over the country were welcomed to Cambridge by President Lowell at an informal smoker in the Trophy Room of the Union...
This step is in line with the general policy embarked upon this year by the governing board of the Union, which has already broadened its activities in many ways. Notable among the latter are the frequent addresses held by the management in the Living Room. These have given the student body an opportunity to hear such men as Commander Read, and Walter Hampden ' 00. Hugh Walpoie, the British novelist, comes tonight, and Professor Stephen Leacock, the humorist and economist, Viscount Grey, the new British Ambassador, and Donald MacMillan, the Arctic explorer, have all promised to address the club some time...