Review of Hoover Coolidge and reparations talks
Edward W. Pickard surveys Hoover’s return to Washington as Coolidge seeks American input on invited experts for German reparations. He notes Dawes plan optimism, FrancoAmerican finances, and looming disputes over payment duration guarantees and Ruhr arrangements.
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Hoover
President Coolidge
Edward W. Pickard
Washington
Coolidge
Conference of Experts
United States
Germany
Mr. Hoover
Seymour Parker Gilbert
Gilbert
Parker
le Temps
Paris
France
Reich
Rhineland
von Hindenburg
Mueller
Berlin
Georgia
Howard ©. Coffin
Forgotten Hero Craik Honored After Century of Neglect
Doctor James Craik, Washington’s close ally and chief hospital physician of the Continental Army, is memorialized with a granite monument in Alexandria after years of neglect. His career spanned Braddock’s expedition, Yorktown, and he closed Washington’s eyes in 1799, leaving a lasting legacy in American military medicine.
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Elmo Scott Watson Fter
George Washington
James Craik
Doctor Craik
Old Presbyterian Meeting House
Alexandria
Presbyterian Meeting House Restoration Committee
Patriot Army
Virginia Provisional Regiment
Craik
Joshua Fry
Fry
Wills Creek
Washington
Fort Necessity
Great Meadows
Braddock
Fort Duquesne
Monongahela
Virginia
Maryland
Port Tobacco
Boston
America
Great Britain
West Indies
Count Rochambeau
Newport
R. L
Til
Yorktown
Mount Vernon
Washingtons
France
James McHenry
United States
General Washington
Tony War and the Iceman’s Vicious Ice Box Case
A beat officer confronts a red headed ice-wagon driver after a house to house salesman accuses the man of assault. The driver retorts he struck first to defend affection and claims the salesman tried to arrest the iceman.
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Tceman
Bridget Nolan
Crocodile Dinner Singed by Uganda Village Feat
In Njango on Lake Victoria Uganda locals flock to see an African man coax a 11 foot crocodile from the lake to eat fish from his hand. On weekends crowds arrive as the fish sale makes him rich. Buses run special trips to the village to witness the odd spectacle.
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Njango
Lake Victoria
Uganda
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