Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Star study was a natural groove for dimple-chinned Dr. Struve, 36. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father were astronomers. Like War Student Nikolai Golovine, he is Russian-born and a one-time Imperial soldier. After the Revolution he fought with the White Armies, fled to Constantinople in 1921, a year ago succeeded blind Professor Edwin B. Frost as boss of Yerkes...
...them the Man of the Year of 1933 will be National Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. The year was more than one third gone before Man of the Year Johnson burst like a flaming meteorite on the country On May 19 the New York Times first reported that he, "soldier, lawyer and manufacturer," had been offered "almost unlimited powers" under "the pending Industrial Regulation Bill." As administrator of the Wartime Draft General Johnson had enjoyed publicity aplenty, but since then he had been out of sight in the news. After June 16, when the Recovery Act was signed...
...papers about the Putsch in 1923 when Hitler and Ludendorff tried to take over the Bavarian Government and I was real surprised. It was funny my old korps-bruder being such an important man. But he didn't forget me! "He was a brave and good soldier. I remember him well. He was a small man just about my own age. My own mustache -it's like his, don't you think? We did messenger work together. After he was wounded and made a Gefreiter he didn't take his leave but came right back...
...between two strong, non-parliamentary states-Russia and Germany-and is unable to retain her democratic forms. We must adopt a new Constitution, based solely on the President, excluding the party system." Thus read a momentous communique released last week by the "Pilsudski. Colonels," the tight little clique of soldier-statesmen who have ruled Poland for years under the aegis of walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski whose whimsy is that he will not be President. For more than two years the Pilsudski Colonels have been drafting Poland's new Constitution, recognizing that Marshal Pilsudski cannot live forever, that Poland...
...company seems definitely to be trying to vitiate Romberg's music, nor is anything gained by introducing 1933 wise-cracks into what purports to be an 1840 atmosphere. Kathie reaches for the high notes with commendable energy but deplorable lack of success; Karl Franz acts like a wooden soldier and sings like a pelican. If the Student Prince is not to be allowed to die, there should at least be a penal law against dragging him from the grave with such brutality...