Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon of the Treasury Department offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill, or of the Longworth compromise (which was passed by the House) or of a soldier bonus would not be sense?pocketbook sense. But the opponents of the regular Republicans?Democrats and insurgents ?do speak of these things and do claim to be sane. Last week they set out to prove their sanity by disproving Mr. Mellon's estimate of the Government's purse...
...automobile, carrying four men in the Free State army uniform and one machine gun, dashed into Queenstown about nightfall and stopped at a pier where some Britsh soldiers from Spike Island had just landed. The gun was trained on the Tommies, fire was opened. One soldier was killed, two women (bystanders) and 28 soldiers were wounded-four so seriously that they are not expected to recover. The car then left the pier, drove along the high-road past the Queenstown Yacht Club where the assassins trained the gun on the British destroyer Scythe. They fired but inflicted no casualties...
General Mulcahy is widely regarded as Ireland's premier soldier. His temporary failure as a Cabinet Minister, due in part to the impetuosity of youth, has not detracted from the glamor which sparks from his sword...
...suggested to retire Lyautey and allow Albert Sarraut, Minister of the Colonies in the Poincaré Cabinet, to succeed the soldier who has done so much to extend the French North African Empire. Marshall Lyautey has announced his intention of not resigning just yet. But politics are politics and something must be done for Sarraut, who has proclaimed his Intention of renouncing Parliamentary life after the next elections. It was reported that M. Sarraut had been offered the post of Governor-General of French Indo-China and of Ambassador at Washington, "both of-which he refused...
...question, "and I believe the average Army officer must be placed in the same category. The Army is taught that the function is to maintain peace. If there are any men in the Army who look forward to war, and I have yet to discover one, they must be soldiers of fortune. Most of us are married men, and realizing that we would be the first to be called, we recognize that by maintaining peace we do not take the chance of needlessly widowing our wives and orphaning our children. Although the average citizen hardly gives the matter a thought...