Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another historic spectacle has come to the screen with M.G.M.'s "Clive of India." Ronald Coleman and Loretta Young are the principals. The picture takes Clive from his clerkship in the East India Company through his triumphs as a soldier and statesman to his final downfall...
...They will find a people worthy of themselves and a Reich in which it has for Germans again become a joy to live. They will find a national community in which uncounted millions, from the National Socialist fighter to the soldier and from the laborer to the official, are working in loyal comradeship and honest fulfillment of duty for the reconstruction of the State and the bringing up of a nation that desires to maintain itself in this world in honor, peace and diligence...
...victory had wiped out his $20,500 in Confederate and Carolina bonds. His lot in Washington had been sold for taxes in 1864; his estate at Arlington had gone the same way; the $40,000 due his daughters from the Custis estate could not be raised. So the old soldier took on the job of president of Washington College in Lexington, Va., where he had an offer of $1,500 a year, plus the use of house and garden, plus one-fifth of the revenues to be derived from the tuition fees of $75 per annum for each student...
...extremely sorry it should be necessary for the ex-soldier's asking for that which should be gladly given by a grateful country. . . . You now have a free press only so because the ex-soldier stood between you and all the crackpotisms that would tell you when and what to write. Now you are just the instrument of the selfish, vested interests who tell you just as effectively...
...August 1867 a soldier came down with yellow fever. In a few days the fort was a raging pesthouse, isolated from the world. Gunboats were ordered away, ships were afraid to stop. When the fort physician died Dr. Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...