Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking English at a luncheon given by the English-speaking Union, Lord Lee of Fareham, the rich soldier-states-man who gave Chequers Court to the nation as a country home for her badly paid Prime Ministers, was expected to make some encouraging references to the satisfactory relations which governed Anglo-Saxons in Anglo-Saxondom...
...Smoot is not the son of a prophet, but he is the man who said two years ago: "As sure as God lives and the sun rises in the morning, there will be a soldier bonus law passed by the next Congress...
...army authority than General Bullard on the conduct of American Negro troops in war. Colonel James A. Moss, a graduate of West Point, who served 18 years with Negro troops and commanded the 372d Infantry in France, says: "If properly trained and instructed, the Negro makes as good a soldier as the world has ever seen. The history of the Negro in all of our wars, including our Indian campaigns, shows this. He is by nature of a happy disposition, he is responsive and tractable, he is very amenable to discipline, he has faith and confidence in his leader...
...questions the bravery of the American Negro soldier, let me relate the story of Sergeant Butler, of Company L, 369th Infantry, who pursued a German raiding party into No Man's Land after it had captured a white American officer and four or five Negro soldiers, and who alone and unaided, except by the small machine gun he carried, freed the white officer and the Negro soldiers and killed a half dozen of the German raiding party and seriously wounded the German officer, who later died in our trenches...
James Kendall Hosmer: Graduating from Harvard seventy years ago, he served from modesty as a private soldier in the Civil War, and thereafter by his pen has enriched the history of England and America...