Word: soldiering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
Died. Otto Cyffka, 24, "World War's youngest soldier," of shattered nerves; in Rosenheim, Bavaria. He enlisted at 14, at the outbreak of the War. Later he was employed in a power plant, was buried in a landslide with five other workers, he being the only survivor...
...Because of the failure of the final Deficiency Bill, the President undertook to see that various measures, authorized by law but not appropriated for, be commenced. These included work preliminary to payment of the soldier bonus, increased salaries for government "field workers" under the Reclassification of Salaries Act, increased salaries for firemen and policemen of the District of Columbia. The expense was to come out of lump sum appropriations for the fiscal year 1924-25. This practice would later result in a deficit, but Congress would be able to provide the necessary funds in December. It seemed, however, that...
...difFerences between the President and the Republican Congressional group were, of course, ignored. As far as possible, they were concealed. In one case, that of the soldier bonus, the difference was compromised by entire refusal to touch on the subject. But on the question of tax reduction?the Mellon plan on which the President took his stand?Mr. Coolidge's position was approved in general terms and the substitute law, which was passed, mildly disapproved. On the question of U. S. entry into the World Court, the platform sanctioned Mr. Coolidge's recommendation for entrance...
...sponge in the inside of a soldier...