Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...
...core of the question is that a man who is sick or under some other special disability because he was a soldier should certainly be assisted as such. But if a man is suffering from economic need because of the Depression, even though he is a veteran, he must be placed on a par with all of the other victims of the Depression...
...Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small but significant sample of France's current temper. Across the river in the Palais Bourbon porters were filling all the inkwells and placing a large brass dinner bell on the Speaker's desk, for the most powerful, least responsible legislative...
Whatever means are devised for paying off the soldier's certificates, the bonus bill will still remain a purely selfish bit of class legislation. As such it is as great a vice as the inflation it eventually would cause. Today the majority of the country look to the President in his speech to the Senate not only to expose the evils of the bonus measure, but once and for all vigorously to denounce those sectionists who have been intimidated into yielding to the unjustified demands of a single group. Mr. Roosevelt will need all his powers and public support...
...life Josef Pilsudski thought like a soldier. The constant bickering of Poland's Sejm (Parliament), which at one time contained at least 22 different parties, first amazed, then disgusted him. In May 1926 he headed a coup d'etat that raked the streets of Warsaw with gunfire for two days, kicked out the Government, and set up as President of Poland a kindly unworldly scientist who had been a good friend of the old Marshal's since their meeting in London in 1902: Ignatz Moscicki. Josef Pilsudski was content to become Premier, Minister of War and Inspector...