Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Histo, circa 100, famed Indian army scout who led in the capture of the Modoc Indian renegade, Captain Jack; of old age; in Warm Springs Reservation...
...turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round up the green-shirted Hungarist...
Summoned by Regent Horthy to succeed Dr. Imredy was 60-year-old Count Paul Teleki, Hungary's Boy Scout leader, a Catholic Transylvanian nobleman, an expert geographer and member of Britain's Royal Geographical Society. Notable it was that...
...stories in Sirocco follow the pattern of those experiences. With superb characterizations, plenty of dash, touches of sympathy, they add up to something more than Hemingway's bloodlettings. Bates writes as movingly about a Fascist woman doctor as about a Loyalist scout, most movingly about humble, non-partisan farmers and fishermen ten years before...
...they are capable of out of men whose limitations he understands. "Pink" Harrington is a West Pointer and his No. 2 man is no fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...