Word: croix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charley Anderson, for example, is a well-meaning, good-hearted aviator who won the Croix de guerre in the War. He has genuine mechanical ability, works as a mechanic for a time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like...
Later some 40,000 spectators wildly cheered 15,000 marching members of the Croix de Feu, giving the Fascist salute derisively at police. Ensued a free fight in which cafe patrons hurled water syphons, tables & chairs at police who hurled them back. Significantly, when the Gardes Mobiles marched in to restore order, these grim troopers were cheered with cries of "France for the French!" while the police were booed as tainted with the Socialist, Communist and Jewish aura of the Popular Front...
...French Croix de Guerre. As a member of that Rumanian order I was sent to the funeral of King George. I was never a masseur as stated by that radical London paper, but I regret that I am not one as I would have loved to rub the bones of the reporter who invented that stupid story. Thank you for your correction and I wish to assure you of my gratitude. CONST. N. COTOLAN School teacher and Grammar school supervisor Dragoslavele, Muscel, Rumania...
...French army. At nearly the same time shortly after this Hall and Nordhoff joined the famous Escadrille Lafayette. Thus, they met, became fast friends, and risked death daily over the German lines. In 1918 both were transferred to the United States air service in France. Nordhoff received the Croix de Guetter Hall was shot down and remained a German prisoner until the Armistice...
...claim that, as journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix...