Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happens that Defense Day, Sept. 12, has a double interest for General Pershing. As Chief of Staff he is working for it as a consummation of his efforts to give this country adequate defenses. As a soldier, serving the nation, Sept. 12 will mark the last day of his military career. On Sept. 13 he will be 64 years of age and automatically retired from the Army...
...fell in battle. Let us continue to be true to our calling and let us place manly Truth and Honor above everything." But word had yet to come from the Saxon Field Marshal von Mackensen, reputed the first cavalry leader in the world, thought by many the ablest soldier Germany had in the War. What would the hero of a dozen Rus sian victories say? The white-haired soldier, now 74 years of age, gave his message: " We old soldiers are bearers of the spirit of 1914. You comrades must see that it continues to live in the breasts...
...RICHEST MAN?Edward Shanks ?Knopf ($2.00). Off on a holiday to Italy, suffering from shell-shock, a professor meets a soldier of fortune. Together, they discover a super-man? "the richest man in the world." "He is not one of the millionaires you read about in the newspapers: he is the man behind them?the biggest of them all. He has forests in Canada, ruby mines in the Urals, radium deposits in Brazil, hotels in Japan. There are trust and holding companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling...
...soldier: "The speech made by General Metaxas [Royalist Leader] is not to be printed...
...peculiar state of affairs had arisen on account of the recent controversy over the soldier bonus. In October, 1923, Mr. Mellon issued less favorable figures; the Democrats accused the Treasury of "juggling figures" in order to forestall the bonus. Hence, when Mr. Mellon issued last week the glad news of the greatest surplus of history, he issued it with an apology...