Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday she went with the President to Arlington to lay a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb. The rest of the day she entertained New York State's Superintendent of Public Works & Mrs. Frederick Stuart Greene, who stayed over night after going to a play with their hostess...
...theme is a threadbare one. Young Margaret is wronged by smoothie John, way down in Virginia; smoothie John, sensibly enough, proceeds, to forget all about his deed, he being a soldier, and there being a war in France. He comes back, handsome as over, but still forgets, and Margaret and Sonny toddle along on their own. Finally, she dies, and this accident, plus the Stock Market crackup brings Boles around. The last we see of him is a paternal scene with John taking care of the irritable little Mistake. What would have been a blithery piece is rescued by Margaret...
...More books like Time, Forward! would go a long way to persuade the White world that Red Russia has found in co-operative work a real moral equivalent of war. The Author began his literary career by writing humorous sketches for Russian newspapers. Before that he had been a soldier. Tsarist against the Germans, a Red artilleryman against the Whites. Now in Moscow (he was born in Odessa) he has beaten his sword into one of Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow...
Military training in colleges, criticized by many as looking forward to war, is considered by Colonel Spaulding as preparedness and therefore a guarantee against war. Refuting the critics of his department, he affirmed that the soldier is the last man to desire a war, since it is upon him that the work of conducting it rests. "Many are very anxious to acquaint the public with the horrors of war. The military man knows them all. He has had first-hand contact with them...
...West Point men are fully trained for the profession of a soldier, acquiring there a complete college education. Their graduates become second lieutenants in the regular army, and the usual course is active military service. ROTC men, on the other hand, are commissioned in the reserve army. Military service in the time of peace rests entirely with the graduate, but if he wishes he may work and advance in the army. The ROTC is merely a skeleton of an emergency group, while the regular army is a permanent and active organization...