Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Napoleon, Major General Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall is associated with the fact that when a piece of artillery hits a soldier it automatically eliminates him from the battle. After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, the fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded...
Colonel Browning, commanding officer of the Harvard Military Science department, made this statement in reference to the new method of building up a national reserve of 4000 scholar-soldier-industrialists devised by Hanford McNider '11, Assistant Secretary of War. This plan will become effective next spring and is supported by industrialists all over the country...
...visit our cemeteries, as I did!" cried the Senator. "There you will find ribald and insulting remarks penciled on the little white crosses that mark the graves of American soldiers. For instance: 'To hell with America,' and other insulting inscriptions. I wish, but I have not much hope, that Congress would pass at the next session an appropriation which would make it possible for the Government to bring home every American soldier now buried in French soil!" General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, quietly informed newsgatherers who sought him at his sister...
...just returned on leave from overseas service, he once exuberantly climbed a pillar in one of London's most fashionable music halls and demanded cheers for the ladies of pleasure to be found in the lobby. Theirs were, he said, the only breasts on which a roving English soldier's head was always sure of comfort and repose...
...loves politics. Where his youth aimed, his manhood achieved. Last week he carried his new sphere-moviedom-to his old political realm, talked to President Coolidge about films of Woodrow Wilson, General Pershing's homecoming, the burial of the Unknown Soldier-all history. And as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed pleased...