Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demanded more of Dwight Morrow than himself. He was born in Huntington, W. Va., son of the poorly paid president of Marshall College. At 17 he tried to get into West Point but missed the appointment because his older brother Jay was already a cadet. Jealous neighbors objected. He failed his entrance examinations for Jefferson College, he failed at Amherst too, but a friendly professor interceded. He was allowed to work off his conditions as a classmate of quiet Calvin Coolidge in the Class of 1895. He worked his way through Columbia Law School. Six years later he had worked...
...Harvard will find all the opposition it wants two weeks hence, with the 1930 defeat to be avenged. Of the Crimson's first five games, the Army is the only opponent which it met last year, and Major Sasse bids fair to produce the equal of the 1930 cadet eleven...
...eleven he went to the Prussian cadet school at Wahlstatt where fierce-whiskered drill sergeants beat all imagination, all desire for originality out of him, taught him the great military virtues: absolute obedience, perfect loyalty, scrupulous honesty. At 18 he saw his first action in the war with Austria and wrote in a letter to his parents...
...stocky little pecan-growing Governor of Mississippi, summoned her Cadillac to the front door of the Bilbo home at Poplarville, Miss. To her Negro chauffeur, an ex-convict pardoned by her husband, she named her destination: West Point, N. Y. Then away she drove to visit her son. Cadet Theodore Gilmore Bilbo Jr., a plebe at the U. S. Military Academy...
Charmed Life. Lieut. Commander George Pearson Glen Kidston, rich, young and debonair, was sometimes called "the man who cannot be killed." A naval cadet at 15, he was aboard the training ship Hogue when it was torpedoed, was rescued hours later and transferred to the Aboukir which likewise was torpedoed. A grown man and sportsman, he flew with the late Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein and crashed. He was piloting a speed boat at 60 m.p.h. when it broke in two. In 1929 he was one of two survivors of the crash of a Lufthansa plane in England which killed...