Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colored officer, in France, after the armistice, was talking to a soldier about work and the officer was telling him that he had to get to work and the soldier was refusing. Finally the soldier said: "Well, I enlisted for the duration of war and the war is over." So the officer answered, "Yes, the war is over, but the duration is just beginning...
...have to go carefully in handling men who are working with you. Discipline is founded on respect for the officer or soldier. The basic qualification for an officer is that he show the men that he always has their best interest and welfare at heart. This applies to men in war, industry, or anywhere else...
...Sassoon, the young English soldier-poet, who has attracted attention both by the excellence of his later verse and by his expressed beliefs in regard to war, has been invited to speak here (and to read from his own works) by the Harvard and New England Poetry Clubs. The lecture will be open to all members of the Union...
...soldier relief legislation now under discussion in Congress calls for the expenditure of nearly a billion dollars to be distributed in the form of a bonus of one dollar for each day spent in the service. It is proposed to exclude from these benefits the very class which probably stands in most need of assistance, those who apply for vocational training, homestead priority or loans...
This distribution of a billion dollars, more or less indiscriminately among three million ex-service men, would at best be a costly measure of doubtful value for soldier relief. But when the cost of the very process of distribution and the increased burden on our tax system are considered, it is out of the question. Before we increase our expenditures for the past, let us consider that our schools are suffering for teachers and that we are passing on to coming generations an enormous national debt. Rather than add needlessly to our already staggering bill...