Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Rico, allowed them also unrestricted refining. When the Bill reached the floor of the House, Congressman Marvin Jones, Agriculture chairman and father of the Bill, introduced a courtesy amendment to right these discriminations, but he fooled no one. Said McCormack of Massachusetts: "[Mr. Jones] is a good soldier, but he talks with his tongue in his cheek." The amendment lost, 135-to-92, and swarms of sugar lobbyists perched confidently in the gallery, knowing they had won, began making side bets on various minor amendments. The Bill itself finally passed, 165-to-55, and went to the Senate. Lobbyist...
From the observation platform high up Montfaucon Memorial tourists can peer across five miles of the world's bloodiest ground to Meuse-Argonne cemetery. There lie buried over 14,000 U. S. soldiers, most of them under alabaster crosses, a sprinkling of Jews under the six-pointed Star of David. Some have for an epitaph Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Theirs the largest U. S. cemetery abroad, containing almost half the bodies not returned to the Motherland...
...except Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, Pershing, his work done, is expected to retire now, having completed 14 years with the Commission. Before returning to the U. S. he will model for an equestrian statue the French are erecting at Versailles to commemorate the A. E. F. *Of 78,734 soldiers who died in France, 46,000 have been returned to this country for burial; 3,652 are still missing, 600 are buried at sea. Some 1,700 bodies remain unidentified. It cost the Government $394 to repatriate a dead U. S. soldier from France...
...loyal." Thus last week a Chinese tool of Japan was set up in Peiping as the executive of a piece of China as large as Texas. After touring about Peiping, optimistic Japanese Colonel Takeo Imai, the Japanese Resident, crowed: "Everything is brightness itself! Not a single Chinese soldier remains in Peiping." Japan's Domei news agency added that "a stream of would-be-constructive Chinese statesmen is pouring into the offices of the Japanese Army's Special Service Mission" -i.e., offering themselves as prospective cabinet ministers should North China presently be organized by the Japanese into "another...
...Roosevelt who was too liberal for Smith. In fact his loyalty to the President-often tried by swift Rooseveltian shifts of front that left him out on a limb-won Joe Robinson the pity and respect of the men who fought him hardest on the Senate floor. As a soldier he had the admiration of the entire Senate, even of those who thought he was a soldier worthy of a better leader...