Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pazaza may be an excellent spat salesman but it is very apparent he knows nothing at all about wars. An American veteran was an American soldier. Some of these Americans that Mr. Gerzzora refers to have walked right up and into barrages. Anybody who can do that has "guts," be he French, British, Italian, German or American...
Last March one Ben Kerr, postoffice clerk of Gary, Ind. went to an American Legion meeting, introduced a resolution to cash the Soldier Bonus.* In May Clerk Kerr was discharged because of "political activities" forbidden by the civil service law and "contrary to the expressed wish of the President who considers [Bonus] legislation harmful to the country at this time." Last week President Hoover heard about Clerk Kerr's dismissal. He talked the case over at length with his Cabinet. Then he wrote to Postmaster General Brown: "I have never made any such suggestion as to this...
Died. Col. Cushman Albert Rice, 54, soldier of fortune, big game hunter, original of the hero of Novelist Richard Harding Davis' Captain Macklin; of heart disease; at Green Lake...
...indifference in the face of danger. He listened quietly while old Francisco Bergamin, Spain's Clarence Darrow, argued that his coup had not been a "consummated revolt,'' for which the penalty is death, but a "frustrated rising," punishable with life imprisonment. He smiled when a soldier testified that in ordering him to blow up the Lora del Rio bridge the general had instructed him to "do the least possible damage." When the judges returned a verdict of death General Sanjurjo remarked blandly: "I have been in worse situations...
...dropped down on his private car, blew the Old Tiger out of all consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability to handle it. The best intentioned young man in the world, he is temperamentally unfitted to be a soldier and, despite painful efforts to break himself of the habit, he is a narcotics addict. Son Chang had a problem to face that the wily old Tiger was spared-the partially united China of the Nationalist government. Old Chang Tso-lin, living in the days of the great war lords...