Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress he voted for the Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Immigration restriction (1924), Tax Reduction (1926, 1928, 1930), the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Radio Control...
...Harvard's trophy-filled Soldier's Field locker building was burning down, among the students who rushed to help was Allan Hoover, the President's youngest. After the fire was out, Clarence Douglas Dillon, next year's football manager, son of Clarence Dillon (Dillon, Read & Co.), phoned his father in New York, got him to promise $500,000 for a new building...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...
...Prime Minister of Turkey, onetime victorious Commander-in-Chief on the Turkish western front in the odoriferous war with Greece. Last week bristling General Ismet decided to flay the faint, insipid, artificial perfumes which Turkish ladies buy with the guarantee: Fresh, and Direct from Paris. Said Ismet with a soldier's scornful snort: "The Government will consent no longer to having the daughters of Turkey perfumed with expensive foreign extracts...
...With a soldier's mellow sentimentality General Ismet continued: "We want our daughters, at the urging of their mothers, who, with their heads ornamented with the flowers of Anatolia, than's to the vigor of their healthy bodies, transported munitions in our time of need, to consecrate themselves to the pursuit of a vigorous physique. We want them ... to exhale the perfume of the flowers of our mountains, and to reflect the spirit of economy and sobriety...