Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldier Robinson, however, may never participate in another Arkansas campaign. His consuming ambition is to sit upon the U. S. Supreme Court. And most of wise Washington believes that President Roosevelt has already promised him the first vacancy on that high bench, as a suitable reward for nearly a generation of able Congressional service...
...Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark and Manhattan he growled: "The President said he wanted me to take the job. I did not want to take it. ... I was called in today to the log cabin on Pennsylvania Avenue and told I should accept the job. I'm a soldier and I do what I'm told to do. ... It feels like hell...
...which comes from the Federal Government. Of the four-billion-dollar Federal work relief fund, this greatest single pool of public destitution in the history of the U. S. will get about $220,000,000, just over 5%. To see that the jobless get it with minimum inefficiency is Soldier Johnson's job. Responsible only to Administrator Hopkins, he will work four days a week, receive no salary, draw $25 a day for expenses...
...Chinese troops and set out for the ancient walls of Peiping. The track the train was on leads for about ten miles along the southern Outer Wall of Peiping, passes the great central gate of Yungtingmen and ducks through a tunnel into the Outer City. Pai Chien-wu, no soldier, had no plan of attack. And his enemy was, not the Japanese, but the Nationalist Chinese garrison at Peiping whom the Japanese have demoted to a "Peace Preservation Force...
...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...