Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week were all of Italy's royal women, notably H. R. H. the Duchess of Aosta. blue-eyed Crown Princess Marie Jose and imposing Queen Elena, who at 8:45 a. m. in a drizzling rain mounted the marble stair of Rome's Monument to the Unknown Soldier...
California Congressman had an appointment to make to West Point. They made a trade, and Old Soldier Hoeppel had the satisfaction of appointing his son Charles to the U. S. Military Academy...
...advantage to Italy in the death of Haile Selassie was obvious, but Good Soldier Badoglio forgot one thing. When a soldier is wounded, he screams and sometimes dies. When a war correspondent is wounded his scream is heard around the world. Some 1,000 bombs dropped in the 17 minutes the planes circled over Dessye killed 53 persons, wounded 200. In the mêlée somebody shot Correspondent Georges Goyon of the Havas News Agency through the knee, and a Miss Petra Hoevig, Red Cross nurse serving in the Adventist hospital, broke her leg jumping into a trench...
Henry M. Rogers '62, oldest alumnus of Harvard College, yesterday east back over his activities of the last 97 years and his experiences as Union soldier, writer, world traveler, and lawyer. Rogers is still active in a Boston law firm, and keeps in close touch with the world, regretting that he can not work more than 24 hours...
General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien...