Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hero Parker joined a distinguished company of Medal of Honor men which included: Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill...
Four weeks ago a blood clot formed in a blood vessel of Dr. Mason's left leg. When gangrene threatened. Dr. Mason last week had the leg amputated...
Unlike active Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring of Des Moines, 1934-35 president of the A.M.A., who had a leg amputated many years ago, Dr. Mason will be unable to perform his presidential duties. Those continue pro tern on the conscientious shoulders of President James McLester, professor of nutrition at the University of Alabama...
...Minot Shepard led the scoring for the Crimson outfit with six tallies. Cured of his injured leg, the Freshman first attack man, Warrick E. Elrod, Jr., ran Shepard a close second by piling up exactly one-third of the victors total; and C. Philip Hammond exhibited consistent play as he added two more goals...
...remarkable hookup among churchmen, politicians and pigeon-fanciers, some 3,000 pigeons winged industriously over large parts of the U. S. for several days last week. In Washington Representative Pehr G. Holmes helped Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor attach a little tube to the leg of a pigeon which promptly took off for Manhattan, carrying a message to England's grizzled old George Lansbury, onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson...