Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authors of these proposals are seven members of the Ways & Means Committee headed by Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Waterville, Wash. Democrat Hill, who got to Congress in 1923 by plumping for the soldier bonus and promising to "soak the rich," is not so radical as he sounded ten years ago. Today he is even rated as a "conservative with progressive leanings." The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and the Hill Bill to boost tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies have been his most noted concerns...
...long wrestles with the professional soldier, as represented by Lord Kitchener and Sir Douglas Haig, he generally enlists the reader's sympathy. Apparently Kitchener for a long time could not be made to see the necessity of increasing supplies of heavy guns and high explosives, objecting to them obstinately on the grounds of unnecessary expense. An almost speaking photograph shows "Papa" Joffre and Haig behind the lines at the Battle of the Somme, excitedly pointing out to Lloyd George, who stares at them skeptically, that as soon as the imminent break-through is made, their massed cavalry will charge...
China was boiling and popping with revolt last week. But China is mercifully vast. Centres of slaughter and pillage, rapine and rascality were strewn hundreds, thousands of miles apart. And firm in the saddle of his stumpy, strong-sinewed Chinese horse sat the great soldier-statesman who gives cohesion to the most populous and strife-wracked country in the world, His Excellency Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...Schumacher," cried the Chancellor, "is the first martyr of the Third Reich. . . . We are confident that his death has not been in vain and that out of it will come what we long for. The murderers of this German soldier are not identified with the millions of our racial brethren across the border. If these, our brethren, could freely raise their voices they would solemnly disavow the murderers and the principles responsible for this bloody crime...