Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wore the uniform of an American soldier, sailor or marine, who fails to cast his ballot for one Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of these United States of America -every day that fellow stays out of an insane asylum he is away from home. Personally, I would walk on my hands & knees from Memphis to Washington, D. C., just for the opportunity of making known, in my very limited way, my admiration, adoration, and adherence to the policies of the World's Greatest Human Being- Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Dawn (Paramount). Leftist admirers of Playwright Clifford Odets may find it a little hard to get excited over the issues he raises in his first screenplay. Based on a story by Charles G. Booth, the contest it involves is between O'Hara (Gary Cooper), an idealistic U. S. soldier-of-fortune, operating on behalf of a Chinese province being pillaged by a war lord, and the war lord himself. Last week at the picture's premiere in Manhattan's Paramount Theatre, where the class struggle has heretofore been manifest only in arguments between patrons and ushers about...
...Chicago's Soldier Field last week, the first big football crowd of the year-76,000-watched Coach Bierman's All-Stars open the season against the Detroit Lions, National Football League champions. The All-Stars gained 184 yd. to the Lions 128, made 9 first downs to 5. Outplayed throughout most of the game, the Lions, vying for the honor of professional football and their owner, Radioman George A. Richards, rallied heroically in the last quarter, tied the score, 7-10-7. In New York, bookmakers made the All-Star team, about one-third of whom will...
Next day II Duce sent Italy's "war babies," the soldier class born in 1914, marching out to swell Italian forces of 200,000 which this week will turn part of southern Italy into a great arena of "war games" umpired by Crown Prince Umberto...
...water-soaked mines of New gate prison, escaped, wasted the rest of his life wandering through the woods looking for his wife. Genteel Mrs. Demooth, most cultivated lady of Deerfield Settlement, went raving mad, shouted Biblical curses at her maid. Feeble-minded Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking the wrong Indian tribes. When General Herkimer, superb Indian fighter...