Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born and educated in Philadelphia Mr. Bucher is a newspaper correspondent soldier of fortune and lecturer...
...Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines, destroyers. Last week the Navy Department, pursuing the Administration's rigid-economy plans, ordered this historic base closed, together with its industrial plants. Only...
During the visit, while sound cameras buzzed expectantly, Prince Umberto had arrived at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier to lay a wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired two ineffectual shots, was immediately knocked senseless. Almost as though he had expected the shots, Prince Umberto coolly proceeded with his wreath laying. The affair looked strange to reporters when it occurred. Last week as the trial progressed, it looked stranger still...
...citizens think of Edgar Allan Poe as a morose genius who wrote horrible stories magnificently and died of drink. Many remember that he was one. of New York's most dogmatic literary critics, that he helped invent the detective story. A few know that he was a soldier for three years, for three months a West...
Died. Maj.-General Henry Tureman Allen, 71, longtime soldier, Wartime com-mander of the goth Division which participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, post-VVar commander of the U. S. Army of Occupation in Germany, holder of decorations from five nations; suddenly, when he was stricken with apoplexy and fell 15 ft. from the porch of a residence at Buena Vista Springs...