Summary: <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highlights</span></h1><br> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Government's Expanding Power | @10:30</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">America Emerges: 1st Division learns tough lessons - Edward Lengel | @08:55</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">War in the Sky: First US planes get shipped to France | @13:15</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">GWP Blog: Wrapup on Tuscania - Mike Shuster | @15:30</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Century in the Making: A busy week for the memorial project | @20:15</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Remembering Veterans: the 370th Infantry Regiment - Colonel Eugene Scott | @24:00</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Education: Poppy Program in middle school - Taylor Gibbs & Lyvia bartoli | @31:35</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking WW1: Camouflage | @36:55</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">WW1 War Tech: Depth Charge | @39:00</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">WWrite Blog: This Colored Man Is No Slacker | @41:00</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buzz: The flu then, the flu now - Katherine Akey | @42:05<a id="more-9084244"></a></span></li> <br> </ul><h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #60 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today is February 23rd, 2018 and our guests for this week include:</span></p><br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Edward Lengel, with a story about the 1st Division’s early encounter with gas warfare</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog with a wrap up story of the sinking of the Tuscania</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colonel Eugene Scott - US Army Retired - with the restoration of the 370th regiment Victory Monument in Chicago</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taylor Gibbs and Lyvia Bartoli sharing their experience fundraising with the Commission’s Poppy Program</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katherine Akey, with the centennial of WWI in social media</span></li> <br> </ul><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All now -- on WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC]</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preface</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In October of 1917, Wilson signs the "Trading with The enemy" act into law giving him sweeping new powers to manage and control international trade.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We covered this in some detail during episode #42 and here are the highlights:</span></p><br> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Enemy owned property can be seized </span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Enemy intellectual property can be ignored</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Treasury department gets extensive powers over the international movement of precious metals and securities</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The postmaster General gets tota</span></li> </ol>
