Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such juggling is the new Finance Minister, nimble Georges Etienne Bonnet, who plays with fair skill the fast, exciting Basque ball game of jai-alai. In 1919 Georges Bonnet served France as Chief of Demobilization, has written stacks of books on the most varied subjects: The Soul of a Soldier; Philosophy of Law; The Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State Railways from...
...suffers even more acutely than most of her predecessors. When her husband (Phillips Holmes) commits suicide because he is incompetent to support her, her father-in-law (Lionel Atwill) not only fails to send her money but takes away her gurgling child. The child grows up to be a soldier, sets out one night to have a good time. Propelled by laws of coincidence peculiar to stories like this one, he goes to the very cabaret where Irene Dunne, now a dignified harridan, is acting as mistress of ceremonies. She is able to take the blame when he murders...
...Drive offered nothing more sensational it would remain an interesting cinema document, but it contains also a number of sequences which are less reminiscent of propaganda newsreels released during the War: a mangled soldier being carried into a front line dressing station and coming out with both legs gone; an old Belgian woman sitting in a shell-hole beside the corpse of a soldier and snivelling into his hat; hand-to-hand trench fighting in which, although the photography is somewhat blurred, it is possible to see a real bayonet go through a real soldier; a squad...
Volume X of the Dictionary of American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...
...voted for: War (1917), 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Jones Act (1929), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Tax Reduction (1924, 1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), Muscle Shoals (1931), Direct Jobless Relief (1932), Anti-injunction Labor Bill...