Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company of Colored Infantry to the Battle of Champagne. He returned with a croix de guerre; went into the insurance business; married Grace, daughter of Alfred Chapin, former Democratic mayor of Brooklyn; was elected to Congress. He it was who introduced the bill into Congress to honor " The Unknown Soldier...
BENEDICT ARNOLD. An intrepid and an able soldier. (" Perhaps it was vanity that made him so, but war can put up with a lot of vanity of that description.") Likewise he was an intrepid and an able spender. His merit unrewarded, his vanity injured, his purse empty, he deliberately turned traitor...
...have next to nothing to show for their work. They are taking from the Ruhr but one per cent of the amount which the Germans delivered in an equal length of time in 1922, for besides the cost of hiring the mine workers, they also have to employ one soldier to guard each worker...
IOWA: A bond issue of $22,000,000 for a state soldier bonus is still being offered for sale. Daily the State Treasurer holds a bond auction-and has done so for over two weeks, but no buyers attend...
...achieving all this, Obregon has had capable coadjutators. First of all there is Huerta, the finance minister who arranged with Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. for the refunding of the Mexican debt. Descended from Yaqui Indians, Spaniards and Polish Jews, Huerta is everything but a soldier. Whatsoever things are practical, he thinks on those things. Then there is General Calles, head of the cabinet. A dreamer, a radical, once a school teacher, he has lived for "land and freedom." An unofficial helper has been Morones, labor leader. He wears check suits, silk shirts, and a heavy revolver...