Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat; 3) abolition of ad valorem taxes on homes and farms; 4) maximum income taxes on "excess salaries of corporation managers"; 5) impeachment for Federal judges who abuse the power of jurisdiction; 6) conscription of money as well as men in the next war; 7) full payment of the soldier bonus; 8) coinage of "enough gold and silver to meet normal demands"; 9) tariff reduction. Adopting this platform, delegates loudly declared that "the great battle of 1932 is America against Wall Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed a savage political attack upon President Hoover after which...
General Summerall, his soldier's pride hurt to the quick, was adamant to all civilian pleas. Not until the Citadel cadet corps, as soldier to soldier, appealed to him did he relent and withdraw his resignation...
Vieux soldat, vieil imbecile-so say the French, but not of Foch. Though an oldish soldier (62) when the War began, he became before its close France's symbol and stimulant of undefeat. "The Man of Orleans," as Biographer Hart subtitles him, filled the role of national redeemer when the Kaiser was Satan and when, for a four-year wink of the Divine eye, God was French...
...soldier hats, the sailoy suits of childhood are laid away, but Harvard's happy children may yet look brave in braid...
...creative skill which used to show in the suave touches which Lubitsch put into his comedies comes out here in other directions?a shot of marching feet for which the camera was placed just behind a one-legged soldier; doorbells ringing in the Falsburg shops as the shopkeepers come out to watch a Frenchman going down the street; a gravedigger telling the German boy's fiancee (Nancy Carroll) that a Frenchman stopped to speak to him and gave...