Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew he could not reduce the fighting force below its 118,000 men without encountering violent public objections. He did not want to retrench on river & harbor improvements and flood control because they were essentials of his Unemployment relief program. Therefore he selected as the most likely bull's-eye for economy some of the Army's 340 forts, garrisons, depots, camps, hospitals, flying fields and arsenals. To the country he issued a statement: "The [General] Staff has insisted for great numbers of years that the Army must be more largely concentrated. . . . We have actually abandoned 13 posts...
Whenever the Los Angeles or the blimps J3, J-4 and ZMC-2 are launched or landed at Lakehurst, N. J., a ground crew of U. S. sailors catches the ship's dangling ropes, holds on hard. Lately the crew's mascot, a nine month old bull pup named Tige, learned to help. He would seize a rope end in his strong young teeth and pull amain...
Like Romans under Caligula, Mexicans at San Luis Potosi last week flocked to their arena to witness gory battle between a lion and a bull. Headlong the bull charged; swiftly the lion struck, clawed down its adversary's face, threw it flat, stalked proudly away...
Luigi Fernandi, owner of the lion (name: Prince), thought that was well enough. When the bloodthirsty crowd yelled for more spectacle, he demurred. He was arrested and Prince was returned to the ring. As Prince leaped again to meet the bull's charge, a horn impaled him, killed him, to the huge delight of the San Luis Potosians...
...first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers, put stars on the vest. Except for minor embellishments, Uncle Sam thereafter became a standardized...