Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, dashing General MacArthur's four-year tour of duty as No. 1 Soldier of the U. S. was due to expire. No successor was named. Instead, an unprecedented order from the White House continued him in office another 30 days. Secretary of War Dern sorely needed General MacArthur to push military legislation in the coming Congress, to continue his army modernization plans. Despite a law which specifies four years of service for the General Staff Corps, Secretary Dern wanted the President to reappoint General MacArthur for another four years. Seldom bound by legal convention, and apparently without...
...were well up to the standard set by the lead parts. The performance of Robert L. McKee '37 as a drunkon man who comes into the royal chambers as an unconscious prophet of fate, was particularly noticeable, as was that of Munro L. Lyeth '37 who was a young soldier reporting the appearance of a ghost to the queen...
...Green," a medley of Harvard and Dartmouth songs; "Tiger Medley," as played at Princeton with interpolation of a male chorus singing The Orange and the Black"; "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," the Cornell alma mater, to be sung by the bandsmen, accompanied by a trombone choir; "Harvardiana," and "Soldiers Field," with vocal; "Wintergreen for President"; "On Brave Old Army Team," and "West Point Alma Mater," the latter sung by the chorus; "Soldier Medley," as played at the Army Game this fall; "Gridiron King," and "Our Director"; "Yale Medley," as played in the Yale Bowl this fall; and "Fair Harvard," sung...
...during the War Major Patrick Jay Hurley jumped into a German trench with a raiding party, beat down the defenders in a battle of bayonets. A wounded German soldier named M. Struver seized a hand grenade, threw it at Raider Hurley, wounded...
...Sent police and Mobile Guards against 20,000 furious French farmers who gathered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and sang the Marseillaise in protest against Premier Flandin's decision to unpeg the French internal price of wheat. After the farmers had dispersed grumbling, the Government announced that within three months the price of wheat will be gradually unpegged, and French farmers will be obliged to report the area they intend to sow in wheat to the State which may curb any farmer who seems likely to raise over 100 quintals (367 bushels...