Let's Stay Out Of It But The U S Couldn't War Entry 1917
In 1914 the United States, rural and isolationist, hoped to stay neutral as Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination sparked a chain to war. Public opinion fractured with pacifists and interventionists while Germany's submarine warfare pressed Wilson toward action. By April 1917 the U S declared war to make the world safe for democracy.
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Peace Without Victory Marks U S Entry War's Enduring Sign
The article recalls the 1917 landing of the American Expeditionary Force in France, Pershing’s insistence on U.S. units, and major battles shaping Allied victory. It notes Meuse Argonne and Belleau Wood, U S casualties, and economic aid, then discusses Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the League of Nations, and Wilson’s decline after his stroke. It ends with U S emergence as a world power and postwar changes.
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Galloway Wins Columbia International Fellows Program
Russell W. Galloway Jr a Middletown High School and College of Wooster graduate is a Columbia University Law School LL B candidate and among eighty two American students awarded fellowships in Columbia's International Fellows Program. The first year cohort includes Galloway who graduated MHS in 1958 and is the son of Dr R W Galloway senior minister of the First United Presbyterian Church.
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Personal Cash Line Offers Quick On Line Payday
Quick confidential cash line promises fast approval and same trip pickup. Advertises budget payments and flexible payoff options with a low overall cost and no delay.
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Bond Issue To Be Topic For Jaycees
Glenn E. Selby and Howard R. Cromwell Middletown school superintendent will discuss a 7 million dollar school building bond at a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday night at the Sportsmen's Club. They speak for the Investment for Youth committee promoting bond passage at the November 3 general election.
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Howard R. Cromwell
Middletown
Cincinnati Stamp Show On Weekend
The Cincinnati Philatelic Society presents Cinpex b4 the biggest stamp show in the city’s history at the Netherland Hotel next Saturday and Sunday. About 2,000 pages from top national collectors and 32 dealer tables, with national exhibitors on topics from Switzerland to postal history of Hawaii, Tibet, Graf Zeppelin air mails, and wartime letters. Stewart Bailey leads a Northwest Territory postal history court of honor. Hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in the South Parlor.
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Nuclear Device Fired In Nevada Test Site
The Atomic Energy Commission detonated a nuclear device Friday at the underground Nevada test site. It marked the 14th test announced this year and the first since August 28.
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