Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement was hardly more than an admission; it was not coupled with a platform. He promised that in the course of several speeches which he was planning his position would be made clear. One point of his stand, however, he expressed; he favors tax reduction and a soldiers' bonus. Said he: "We can have tax reduction and do justice to the American soldier as well, by treating adjusted compensation [the bonus] as a part of the War cost and funding it through an issue of 50-year bonds. The interest and sinking fund charge should not exceed...
...Politics. The disconcerting part of Mr. Mellon's proposal was that politicians had generally come to the conclusion that a soldier bonus was the most popular thing that could be offered the country in a "Presidential" year. Many of them had pledged themselves irretrievably to the bonus, and it was an open secret that several had done so disapproving the bonus but regarding it as a political necessity...
...swing this round his legs, and hung on. But not until it had reached a height of 400 feet could the crew of the TC2 cause the ship to descend by desperate pumping out of gas. And after tense minutes of alternate hope and fear the spectators saw the soldier let go, his strength failing when only 50 feet from the ground. He crashed to an instantaneous death...
...bosom is a moot query. That Archipenko will arouse violent opinion on both sides is patent. A hint of what he may expect at the hands of orthodoxy was contained in a review by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, A. N. A. (painter), when Archipenko's cubistic statue of a soldier was shown in Manhattan in 1921: "The thing is worthless. Only a fundamental degeneration could have produced it, and it is an ominous sign when any sane human being finds it of interest...
...Judge is a novel of great beauty. So also is the earlier The Return of the Soldier which is now being dramatized for production in America as a play...