Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary is editor of Wallace's Farmer, founded by his grandfather and now in receivership. He is one of the original sponsors of Domestic Allotment as "the most intelligent scheme yet brought forward to furnish agriculture with a program for an orderly retreat." He loudly advocates currency inflation to relieve farm debt. Said he last month: "England has played us for a bunch of suckers. The smart thing to do would be to go off the gold standard a little further than England has. The British debtor has paid off his debts 50% easier than the U. S. debtor...
Stillman Infirmary was built in 1901 as a retreat for Harvard men suffering from those minor ailments which could not be cared for in a dormitory, and were not serious enough to take to a hospital. In its thirty years of existence it has outgrown this original purpose, and has become a small, but real hospital, caring for almost any illness contracted by a member of the University. Unfortunately neither the personnel of the Infirmary, nor its equipment has kept pace with its changing purpose...
Plutarco Elias Calles, "Iron Man" and onetime President of Mexico, gave his Santa Barbara hacienda, 20 mi. from Mexico City, to the Mexican Agricultural Department for an experimental station. "Iron Man" Calles built his rural retreat five years ago when his first wife, by whom he had nine children, died. At Santa Barbara hacienda last November his beauteous young second wife, by whom he had two children, died. He has not been able to live there since...
Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...through a real soldier; a squad of U. S. infantry going over the top into machine gun fire; a zeppelin picked out by searchlights over England; a chaplain walking through an evacuated battleground, making rapid gestures over minced bodies. There are good sequences of Italian soldiers scampering wildly in retreat across a bridge under shell fire; prisoners lolling about and scratching themselves in a barbed wire paddock; the bombardment of Ypres; a German officer burning his tongue on a spoonful of soup in Brussels in the summer of 1914. Some of the performers in The Big Drive are Lord Kitchener...