They've never yet missed a meeting--not for the declarations of war in 1917 or 1941.
In 1917, World War I's most famous spy, Mata Hari, was executed by firing squad at Vincennes Barracks outside Paris.
He was brought up by a mother who passed herself off as his elder sister, and he only learned the truth from her on the day he was mobilised for war-time service in 1917.
The debt ceiling gimmick was introduced in 1917, amid World War I.
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D-66, the libertarian glue in the ruling purple patchwork, who slumped to 9% but hope to stay in government, and the Christian Democrats, who ruled the country without a break (bar a war-time blip) from 1917 to 1994, and look set to be the main opposition.
By 1916 and 1917 the relentless slaughter of a war of attrition had so deepened enmity on both sides that friendly meetings in no-man's-land were all but unthinkable, even at Christmas.
It was not until World War I, when British forces were at the gates of Jerusalem, in November, 1917, that the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, anxious for Jewish support in the war, issued his epic yet ambiguous Declaration.
In 1917 at a meeting of the Imperial War Conference, it was acknowledged that venereal diseases were not being contained either in France or England and they were seriously impeding the fighting capacity of the forces.
In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson led the United States into World War I.
According to Orlov this is the work of John Wells Rahill, a pastor who graduated from Yale University in 1906, and who in 1917 joined the American branch of the YMCA, in particular the War Works Division.
The gold standard was an international institution, and after 1914 and the start of the World War I, a host of major participants (including the U.S., in 1917), suspended gold convertibility.
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The Met didn't present any Wagner operas in 1917-18 and 1918-19 during U.S. involvement in World War I, the only seasons until now without the composer since the company began in 1883.
The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassam, 1917, depicts Fifth Avenue in New York City adorned with flags and banners in support of the Allied war effort during World War I.
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