Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left Africa, and Britain's Ethiopian campaign was successfully over...
...joke to Britain's General Staff is the failure of the current recruiting campaign, because modern armies are twice as complex as those of 1914, it takes twice as long to train an efficient soldier. Since the announcement of new plans to mechanize the British cavalry, troopers have been scratching their heads over engine diagrams, the intricacies of caterpillar treads and short-wave wireless. Even the infantry has had to struggle with such new devices as the Boys rifle, a ponderous blunderbuss that weighs 35 lb., fires a 5-in. cartridge through the steel walls of tanks...
Secretary Duff Cooper was doing his best to attract recruits into the service last week. The base pay of the British soldier has been raised from 27? to 50? a day about ⅔ as much as the U. S. buck private.' If his ability to polish boots and clean pipes wins him a job as an officer's servant, he can count on another $5 a month, and if he stays in the army long enough to win the stripes, red sash and silver-headed cane of a sergeant, he can earn more than $17.50 a week...
...When Hitler offered one to General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff, that eccentric old soldier refused it on the ground that such an honor was possible only in wartime and from the hand of a Sovereign. Germany's only other surviving field marshals are General August von Mackensen, Duke Albrecht of Württemberg and Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria...
...Seattle 500 University of Washington students clamorously piled wreaths fashioned from green editions of Publisher William Randolph Hearst's PostIntelligencer on the tomb of a future Unknown Soldier, heard a student impersonating J. Pierpont Morgan gloat: "We made money out of the last war. We'll make money out of the next...