Word: neutralities
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...Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina boys. He fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, won a Distinguished Service Medal and in December 1918 led a party of hotheads into neutral Holland, in a fantastic but futile attempt to kidnap Kaiser William II for "a Christmas present for President Wilson...
Such interchanges went on constantly during the war-always of course through a neutral intermediary. (The amenities of warfare must be observed, even at some inconvenience.) Throughout the war English and French industries maintained to Germany a steady stream of glycerin (or explosives), nickel, copper, oil, and rubber. Germany even returned the compliment: she sent France iron and steel and magnetos for gasoline engines. This constant traffic went on during the war via Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, or Holland, by the simple process of transshipment--enemy to neutral to enemy...
...Neutral Spain voted $11,000,000 for her small navy...
...Neutral member of the board was picked by President Roosevelt. As Labor and Industry's representatives, zealous to serve their constituencies, were expected to be deadlocked most of the time, this third member became a man of decisive importance. He was Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board and a member of the National Labor Board...
...Decision of the board shall be final and binding on employer and employes. Such a board is to have access to all pay rolls and to all lists of claimed employe representation and such board will be composed of: a) a labor representative; b) an industry representative; c) a neutral...