Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sales Tax, which was to raise about one-half ($595,000,000) of the sum required to balance next year's Budget. He had no organized backing except the dissatisfaction of members with this backlog tax, no political power except his own arguments. Yet so well did he regiment the opposition to the Sales Tax fortnight ago that the House, as a preliminary to replacing that levy with other forms of revenue, boosted the normal and surtax rates beyond those in the bill. Under his spurring last week the House...
...Directions have been given to send to Shanghai the 31st Regiment . . . now at Manila, together with 400 Marines [later increased to 600] on the transport Chaumont leaving tomorrow. The cruiser Houston and six destroyers left Manila this morning for Shanghai...
...fire engine, Americus No. 6, whose dashboard was decorated with the original Tammany Tiger. There were ship models of every carrier that has plowed the harbor from the Half Moon to the Bremen. Brigadier General Clinton De Witt Falls gave a collection of the uniforms of the old 7th Regiment (the original National Guard), from. 1823 to 1931. Banker Speyer, who lives almost next door, gave a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with the stipulation that he might take it home from time to time...
...haired Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, better known as the original Stalky. Poet Kipling did not attend. He stayed with his big, quiet, little-known wife, thinking. Days like the days of his youth seemed at hand. Last week a detachment of 400 officers and men from the Welch Regiment and the Royal Scots sailed for duty in India. The replacement was no larger than usually sails at this time of year, but the men knew, Mr. Kipling knew, the world knew that Britain was preparing for serious trouble. The India Office issued a bulletin...
Louder comes the music. A regiment with great bearskin hats, long coats, and polished boots swings in to view. They are followed by six matched horses hitched with gorgeous gilt trappings. On the blinkers are the tiny, polished letters "G. R." Behind the horses is a great gilt coach within which sits His Majesty the King. He is, as every one knows, on his way to open Parliament...