... miles north to Dawson. His fellow employees greet him with wild enthusiasm, although they were probably surprised to find him mild and quiet and cleanshaven - not at all like the Dan McGrews of his roughneck ballads. 1909: Ballads of a Cheechako is published, Service's next book of verse, was composed entirely in Dawson. By now he has achieved a long-term ambition - financial ... . 1915: Robert becomes a war correspondent for the Toronto Star. 1915 September: Robert joins the volunteer American Ambulance Unit. Serves in contact with the French front line. 1916 Develops "boils" because o...

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... the Kennedy family, and gave them front-row seats for the drama of World War II's approach. In the European theater, Adolf Hitler was preparing to occupy Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the British government was pursuing a policy of appeasement, designed to stave off war at all ... Britain and France immediately declared war on Hitler's Reich. (America, as it had at the beginning of World War I, remained neutral.) Hitler's armies quickly crushed the Poles, and tensions at the French-German border immediately settled into a quiet stalemate--the so-called "phony war," which ... Eventually ...

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