Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked up the prayerful chaplain's "rules of reason" and used the phrase as a knife to stab the Senate's faith in God. For the man to be honored...
...Soldier Bonus. Last important omission from the President's legislative program was the bill for paying the veterans' bonus in greenbacks. The President had promised to veto it if passed. So last week the House took him at his word and in boisterous session passed (295-10-125) the bill, 231 Democrats deserting the Administration. All of which made no difference to the President since the bill could not. he was confident, be passed over his veto, must therefore die on the chessboard when Congress adjourned...
Original "I fought in the War as a soldier in the ranks. I know what war means. Terrible memories of those years when whole generations of youth of so many countries were laid low by the hail of lead have not been cancelled from my mind...
...cost $25,000 to kill one soldier in the World War. Krupp supplied many a gun with which Belgian and Russian soldiers slaughtered German troops at the outbreak of the War. Though forbidden by the Versailles Treaty from making armaments, this famed German company is today rearming Germany and doing a good-sized munitions export business to the Far East and South America...
...second, was chosen by the English Book Society. Twenty-seven-year-old Author Hutchinson has a job with the English advertising firm of J. & B. Colman, leans away from London literati. Before that he was an Oxonian but no esthete, no scholar. Though Author Hutchinson is no old soldier (he was too young to fight in the World War), his deeply-felt picture of post-War chaos will be classed with Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back...