Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...request for independence, said he, "had been refused without proof or justification." He exhorted the Egyptians to remain faithful to "complete independence for Egypt and the Sudan." "We will never admit," he concluded, "nor will those who come after us, that a single foreign soldier shall remain on Egyptian soil...
General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian soldier," ally...
...right of Super-Tuchun Wu, there was an ominous silence. Strange, unaccountable phenomenon?the supporting troops commanded by General Feng, "Chinese Christian Soldier," had disappeared. The position of Wu became desperate...
...scarcely credible, after the great to-do which was made to pass the soldier bonus through the Congress at its last session, that ex-soldiers are now slow in applying for their boni. To be sure, no insurance certificates will be issued until Jan. 1; and no cash payments made until Mar. 1. Nonetheless, with 4,500,000 veterans theoretically standing in line, it would seem that each would be anxious to have his application early on the list. Last week, Major General Robert C. Davis, in charge of the work of the War Department in receiving and checking bonus...
...college persons have such an opportunity. Few would think of undertaking such a voluminous body of reading. Yet the soldier's definition of his act was not inaccurate. A to And, And to Aus and their fellows contain virtually every fact and theory that the average college course would conceivably offer. And of late the faculty of this portable university opened an extension school. It published...