World Tangles in Upper Silesia and Naval Talks
The article surveys European tensions over Upper Silesia with Britain France and Poland at odds. It notes American noninvolvement policy while Germany faces disarmament pressure and reparations scrutiny. It also covers U S naval budget debates and looming railway wage reductions with industry layoffs and prosecutions for draft evasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Poland
Upper Silesia
Paris
Korfanty
Briand
Great Britain
France
Germany
England
Mgr
Berlin
Europe
Tice
Czecho-Slovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Hungary
Roumania
Ruhr
Schoolboy of Sahara and the Junior Red Cross Scholarship
A Sahara desert schoolboy is shown with a slate carved with hieroglyphic verses from the Isoran. The Junior Red Cross of America plans a scholarship program to connect such children with modern education in European schools and vocational colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sahara Desert
Red Cross of America
Two Eminent Americans Die After Surgical Operations
Edward Douglass White chief justice of the United States Supreme Court and Franklin K. Lane former secretary of the interior in Wilson's cabinet died last week after surgical operations. White was a Louisiana native in his seventeenth year and a Civil War veteran. He served as senator after 1891 and was appointed to the Supreme Court by Cleveland and made chief justice by Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Council
Harvey
Hughes
Poland
Prince Lubomirsky
United States
France
Upper Silesia
Germany
Berlin
Orgesch
Bavaria
Reparations Commission
Morgan’s
Reichsbank
New York
Paris
Borah
Great Britain
Japan
Harding
Senate
Poindexter
Wilson
Naval Committee
Navy
Edward Douglass White
United States Supreme Court
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
White
Louisiana
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Taft
Odd Occupation of White House Flower Picker
Joseph Wardle aged 87 has pressed and sold discarded White House flowers since Grant's administration, turning garden scraps into a small trade. He gathers fallen blooms, presses them carefully, and sells keepsakes to visitors and collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Wardle
Grant
White House
Infinitives and the Axe in Language Style
A discussion on splitting infinitives argues some passages gain emphasis when split while others feel strained by avoidance. The author notes deliberate splits can improve rhythm and clarity though not always required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. ©. Sauire
War Dog Stubby Leads Washington Parade float
Stubby, the celebrated war dog, featured in an animal parade by the Humane Educational society in Washington. Little Miss Louise Johnson rode the float with Stubby, who wears decorations for wounds suffered in France Belgium and the United States.
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Stubby
Washington
The
Humane Educational Society
Miss Louise Johnson
France
Belgium
United States
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Baar
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Sarah
Edward W. Pickard
Armis
Charleston Navy Yard
Ins
Pomerene
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House Committee On Foreign Affairs
House Judiciary Committee
Ryan
Prohibition
Kramer
Federal Railway Labor Board
Chicago & Alton
Emma Bergdorf
Philadelphia
Charles F. Braun
Grover
Forwin
Innsbruck
Austrigrol
Courtyard of Invalides
Sonia Shearer
Beauty
Inington
Sahara
Liberia
C.D. GB
Wille
Cecile Sorel
Mile
Bib
Cecile
U. S
Lakehurst
N. J
U. S. Navy
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