Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prize exhibit of the display, however, was a live Soviet tank driver who drove in his 15-ton tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain...
Thomas Cheeseborough. Lithe, chiseled, erect, he looks more snobbish than he is, but like a soldier and individualist still disdains cheap politics. "If I can't vote my convictions here," he once said in the Senate, "to hell with this...
Chicago newspapers have a hardheaded, warm-hearted habit of giving free entertainment to Chicago's populace. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune held its annual Chicagoland Music Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own-a "Swing Jam Session" of five "name...
...jitterbugs filled the seats in Soldier Field. Police closed the gates, but reopened them under pressure from a mob outside. At 7 p. m. there were 100,000, average age 18. By the time the swing session began, 200,000 screaming, jittering, snake-dancing, stampeding youngsters were at large in the stadium, and hell was loose...
Kentucky-born Leane Zugsmith's Summer Soldier is about Harlan County. She calls it Chew County. Seven slightly screwy liberals join a committee to investigate conditions in Chew. Five of them, riding down in a stuffy train, get a wire from their chairman, Hankemer, who> has gone ahead: Do not get off at Chew get off at Zara...