Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following are a few of the discrepancies made between the Regulars and the so-called "Tree Army'': The pay of a private soldier is $17.85 per month with $1.50 taken out for laundry. The soldier must pay his tailor, barber, and tobacco bills out of this amount. The soldier is sworn to protect the United States against all enemies for three years. The government expects the soldier to keep his part of the contract, and has a place for him, with a high wall around it to keep him in if he fails to keep his oath...
...shows free. He takes no oath and is free to go home any time he chooses. It has been estimated that not more than 30% of the accepted candidates for the C. C. C. could have passed the Regular Army enlistment examination, therefore the higher qualified 70?-per-day soldier has been cut to 59½? per day so that the budget could be balanced, and the unqualified, out-of-job boy may be paid $1 per day for doing useless labor in the woods...
...Brahman, the intellectual; Kshatrya, the soldier; Vaishya, the merchant; Sudra, the laborer. The Untouchables, fifth social class, are not strictly a caste...
John Clarence Cudahy of Milwaukee to be Ambassador to Poland, a post declined by Boston's Mayor Curley. Tall, good-looking Ambassador Cudahy is a son of the late great Meatpacker Patrick Cudahy. Lawyer, soldier, big game hunter, author, he manages the Cudahy family fortune...
Directly in his path they launched a skyrocket. Zizzling true to aim it hurtled into President Tonisson, dented him painfully, did no real damage. When the President retreated to his car, Front Soldiers seized the off side mudguards, jounced Herr Tonisson severely, nearly turned his car over before police interfered. Next day, pale with fury, the President summoned his Cabinet at Reval on the Baltic. Declaring Estonian democracy "menaced," the Cabinet put Dorpat under martial law, dismissed half the town's police force as tainted with Front Soldier ideology...