Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that all liberty is founded on personal liberty must unite in the defense of our principles and realize that each citizen is a soldier; that every vote is a shot, and we must see to it that no soldiers and shots are wasted. I am firmly convinced that unless the graduates of our universities take a more serious interest in politics in the future than they have in the past our country will fall or at least change so utterly that we will not be able to recognize it, and it will fall not because its institutions are unworthy...
...goes on it becomes increasingly difficult to connect up disability with a man's service. The Red Cross in a way acts as the veteran's lawyer. It advises him, helps him make out his claim, secures supporting affidavits, and in the meantime gives actual cash relief to the soldier's family if they are in need. Moreover, it looks after the securing of a guardian for the mentally incapacitated...
...must depend on citizens in time of emergency," he continued, "for our country will not stand for a large soldier class. It is the volunteer fighter who made the greatest sacrifice and it should be the duty of the country not to put him at a great disadvantage. Nothing is too good for our citizen soldiers," he declared emphatically. When asked if the Bonus was not more of a "tip" given in a feeble attempt to repay a service which could not be valued in terms of dollars, he said: "Last night I was speaking before an audience composed largely...
...Main reading room or in Lower Widener. These books are needed both for, regular assignments in various courses and for outside tutorial reading in the division. Under the present system a man who has a 12 to 1 class on Saturdays, or who is occupied in outside activities at Soldier's Field or elsewhere in the afternoons, finds it extremely difficult to reserve books in Room O within the required time, and on Sundays it is not possible to reach books there, even for study in the Library...
...purpose, among other things, was, "to foster and perpetuate one hundred per cent Americanism; . . . to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, State, and Nation". The obligation that can be measured in dollars is pretty worthless compared to one hundred per cent Americanism. For the disabled soldier, let us do everything within reason to help him to help himself; the others, whose service has been such that it is an insult to appraise it in cash, must expect a certain amount of hardship--war never comes without it; that is no reason for adding to the country...