Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt in his proclaimed emergency last week used only three of his emergency powers, 1) He ordered the Army enlarged from 210,000 to 227,000, the Navy from 116,000 to 145,000, the Marine Corps from 19,000 to 25,000, the National Guard from 190,000...
But far more important, of course, were those 4,000,000 assistants who were the hope and sinew of General Smigly-Rydz's defense: the standing army of 18,000 officers, 37,000 noncoms, 211,000 privates, 27,000 frontier defense corps (Soviet border), 29,000 State police (on a...
Rt. Hon. Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force...
Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rodin Rathbone (son), English reservists; Brian Aherne, Gary Grant, Charles Laughton, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Richard Greene, John Loder, Directors Robert Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, able-bodied Britons all, and Raymond Massey, Canadian, prepared in Hollywood for a call...
Assembled at and around Plattsburg, N. Y. last week for quadrennial maneuvers of the U. S. First Army were52,000 Regulars, National Guardsmen, Reservists. On and near the Civil War battlefields at Manassas, Va. were 23,000 more, sweating through the maneuvers of the Third Corps Area. All were under...