Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the President gave to the heroes and history which Texas is advertising in its six-month Centennial (TIME, June 8). After a drive through Houston, he rode on a yacht down Houston Ship Channel to the battlefield at San Jacinto where General Sam Houston wiped out Santa Anna's army, won Texas' freedom in 20 minutes. There President Roosevelt praised Liberty and Peace, called on his 20,000 listeners to enlist in a "national war for the cause of humanity without shedding blood." Nor did he forget to mention ''my old friend" Texas...
Dividing the $3,000,000 velvet from the Federal Government was another matter. Houston, as Texas' biggest city (292,000), got $400,000 for memorializing the battlefield of San Jacinto. San Antonio as third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is relatively small, but has the University of Texas which claimed $300,000. Fort Worth, the fourth city (163,000) had a potent pull in the person of the New Deal's Amon G. Carter and wangled $250,000. Texas' second biggest city, Dallas (260,- 000) ran off with...
France's No. 1 battlefield honor is the Médaille Militaire. By a curious quirk, only generals commanding armies, noncommissioned officers and enlisted men can win the green-and-yellow-ribboned decoration, the former for their strategic vision, the latter for their bravery in direct action. Though the French War Ministry has no record of the number awarded since 1852, some 300,000 recipients are alive today...
Last week Hero Parker joined a distinguished company of Medal of Honor men which included: Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill...
...Regardless of how or why war came in 1917 it was the duty of every American to serve. I was over there. I left my right leg on the battlefield...