Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, noted as an explorer, artist, soldier, and author, will talk on "Chile and exploring through Tierra del Fuego" this evening at 7.30 in the Living Room of the Union. The talk will be illustrated both by slides and by motion pictures of the country and its people. Professor A B Hart will introduce the speaker...
...Democrats in Congress have under way various counter proposals to the Mellon tax reduction. A large block of Democrats favor a soldier bonus, although there is a minority who oppose it. Practically all of them favor tax reduction, but along other lines than those laid down by Secretary Mellon...
...soldier bonus bill, now resting quietly on a siding in the Ways and Means Committee, is almost certain to come up for consideration sooner or later. In recognition of this fact, members of the Committee are waiting for a caucus of the House Republicans to determine and to take the responsibility for the time when the bonus bill shall be reported out. Meanwhile conjecture centers chiefly on the question of whether the bill can be passed over the President's expected veto...
...Auckland Campbell Geddes, aged 44, is a jack-of-all-trades. He is a doctor, an authority on international trade and finance, a soldier, a statesman,a professor. He was given a medical education at Edinburgh University, at the London Hospital and at Freiburg, Germany. He became a Demonstrator and Assistant Professor of Anatomy at his old University; from there he went to the Royal College as Professor of Anatomy at Dublin and subsequently held the same position at McGill University, Montreal, later becoming Principal of that institution...
...regarded as certain that the Ways and Means Committee of the House would take up the case of a soldier bonus before considering Secretary Mellon's tax reduction plan. When the Committee met in its first session, a motion was made to consider tax reduction first. At once the advocates of the bonus made five counter propositions-for considering the bonus first, for considering the bonus when Congress reassembles on Jan. 3, etc.-and all five, were defeated...