Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Committees of the House: ¶Continued hearings on the Soldier Bonus...
...back before a Congressional Committee making lively front page news with his desk-pounding, his belligerent gestures, his oaths-and his homely appeal to common sense. Mr. Dawes had been summoned before the House Ways & Means Committee to give his opinion on the Patman bill to pay off the Soldier Bonus by an inflationary issue of $2.400,000,000 in new currency. He gave the proposition short shrift. Said he: "This issue of fiat money would undermine the credit of the country . . . and shake the soundness of the United States Government itself. It's an invitation to start...
...Author- At 15 Englishman Aldington (born 1892) had made up his mind that writing was the life for him, married a writer [Imagist Poetess Hilda ("H. D.'') Doolittle] to make doubly sure. But the War made a soldier of him, left him shell-shocked for nine years. This interim he filled up with separating from his wife, writing verse, translating some 20 volumes from French, Italian, Latin. Greek. Now, recovered, he spends as much time as possible in France and Italy, thrives on writing books about human vanities more, shocking than war's shells...
...Continued hearings on the Soldier Bonus...
...story of a French soldier who has killed his German in the trenches and who goes to Germany after the war to find the dead boy's parents. He doesn't know why he wants to see them; but he feels that somehow his crime must be expiated. The real argument of the play begins as the young Frenchman (Mr. Phillips Holmes) finds himself received into the family as the dead man's friend. He cannot tell them the truth. He stays on, and by degrees becomes as a new son to them. He becomes indeed the new living center...