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Colonel Forbes was a personal appointee of President Harding. He is a civil engineer by profession, schooled at Phillips Exeter Academy and Columbia University. In 1912 the Government despatched him to Honolulu in connection with the great military works of Pearl Harbor. He became Territorial Superintendent of Construction. During the war he served for 18 months, most of it at the front, and was made chief signal officer of the Ninth Army Corps. He received six decorations. He was appointed head of the Veterans' Bureau less than two months after President Harding was inaugurated. He resigned last Winter on account...
Professor Palmer is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus. He is a noted author, and has written "Self-Cultivation in English", "The Problem of Freedom", and other books...
Springfield. Britain's War Premier visited the shrine of America's Civil War President. Upon the sarcophagus he laid a wreath bearing an inscription: "A humble and reverent homage to the memory of one of the world's greatest...
What apparently is lacking today is common sense. The Eighteenth Amendment has raised an even more futile turmoil than that of the national house cleaning after the Civil War. At the Washington Citizenship Conference recently Governor Pinchot found that most of the trouble lay in the capital, the center of "political ham-stringing of the Federal Enforcement Service." Bryan demanded that the President and the Cabinet should publicly declare themselves teetotalers. Senator Borah thundered his denunciation of wealthy "whites" who defy the law. And on the other said Congressman Hill of Maryland has declared insolently that "if the Drys throw...
...Rhineland, as all over Germany, the people are suffering from nine years of famine. In addition they have been subjected to a brutal military occupation, whereby the Rhineland has been completely isolated from Germany as a whole. The civil government, contrary to the stipulations of the Treaty, has been practically taken over by the French army of occupation, travel and the interchange of news has been forbidden. Physically and intellectually the Rhinelanders have been cut off from the rest of Germany; thousands have been expelled...