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...Student Council urges the whole student body to do all in its power to prevent a recurrence of any such outbreak in the future...
...outbreak of the War President Wilson called Mr. Davis to Washington as a $1-a-year man in the Treasury, sent him to Spain to stabilize the peseta and thus facilitate U. S. Army purchases there. In Paris he served as a member of the Supreme Economic Council, the Armistice Commission, the Reparations Commission, the U. S. Peace Commission. When France imposed its first indemnity on Germany, Mr. Davis exclaimed: "The French have not only plucked this bird but now they're going to keep it from flying." During the last nine months of the Wilson Administration as Undersecretary...
Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in blissful sin in Berlin with Lenore Wahl. Her family, rich Potsdam bankers, looked down their noses at Bertin, not because he was a Jew (they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst...
Like prosperity, Mark Sullivan's subject is just around the corner. This fourth volume of his monumental encyclopedia of Our Times (1900-1925) brings the story up to 1914, just before the outbreak of the World War. Future historians may praise his industry, value his skill in collating facts, but contemporary readers will enjoy him like" a gigantic family album. The sprightly, numerous illustrations (photographs, cartoons, advertisements- 250 of them in this volume) by themselves would make a book worth poring over...
...days of rioting two people were killed, some 60 wounded. North Irish authorities including His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, and Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were bewildered by the violence of the outbreak, could not understand how normally law-abiding Ulstermen could be so aroused...