Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long accustomed to getting in and out of trouble on battlefield and lecture platform, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler U. S. M. C. dodged out of danger last week, popped back to safety. In a letter to Secretary of the Navy Adams he deplored that his remarks before Philadelphia's Contemporary Club-in which he told a story of Prime Minister Mussolini's streaking heedlessly on after running down a small child with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)-had "caused embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits...
Because grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...
...England. It had made it seem appropriate for a swarm of disabled War veterans to join in and freshen up New York's rather overdone greeting ceremony and for Boston, on the occasion of its tercentenary, to give him a "Constitutional Big Stick" cut from an elm on Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders of Liberty and the Constitution (TIME, Sept. 29). It had furnished him a text for a national radio speech on the sanctity of the U. S. passport and had given his newshawks a standing heckle-question...
...tall casement window, the spry Welshman dramatically flung the window wide. "I am going to count three," said he with his eye on the second hand. "After the third count listen, listen for all you're worth!" One, two, three-straining ears caught from far away, from a battlefield on the other side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting...
...This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Osee Lee Bodenhamer, national...