Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quartermaster Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Engineers, Medical Corps, Signal Corps, Air Corps-have been linked, since the War, with civilian industries organized under reserve officers, as a measure of national defense. Army experts estimate that ten industrial workers are necessary to supply the needs of each and every uniformed soldier in wartime. Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private metal sheet & tube factories, for example...
...Nicholas Murray Butler at their head, would have the text modified, but as contributors of one-sixth the total sum, they have no controlling vote. Germany has remained silent, having in mind perhaps the ineffectuality of her, unofficial protest against the war memorial at Dinant, which depicts a German soldier holding aloft on his bayonet the body of a Belgian baby...
...Papal reception followed the laying of a wreath of dahlias on the grave of Italy's Unknown Soldier, and parading to "The Star Spangled Banner," "Piave" and "Giovinezza." Ascending the snowy marble steps of the Apostolic Palace, the Legionaries, all dressed in their evening clothes, were met by smiling Swiss Guards whom Vatican etiquette forbade to salute. The Pope came forth in white. The Legionaries knelt. Commander Savage and a few others were presented. The Pope examined the Legion flag, made a speech...
...While being cheered he held in his arms small Jay Ward, aged 7, from Philadelphia, "typical American boy," new official Legion mascot. After his speech of acceptance, Commander Spafford was said to have slipped away alone to stand at salute beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...Barry Benefield-Century ($2). Remembering that his first novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, was likened by the critics to Dickens, Barrie, etc., Mr. Benefield dangerously approaches cuteness in Bugles in the Night. He too visibly remembers to be whimsical, to introduce characters named Bullwinkle, Crackle, Wimpfheimer. Easley Wheatley, Confederate soldier, runs away to New York from the old soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump...