Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week did the Congressional Record tersely note the death of Representative Edward Everett Eslick, 60-year-old Democrat of Pulaski, Tenn. Representative Eslick was addressing the House in favor of the Patman bill to pay the Soldier Bonus in full with new currency. Not a hale man, he had worked hard preparing his speech. During its delivery he grew excited when pestered by questions from the members. Suddenly he uttered a short, sharp gasp and slumped to the floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried...
...fool but a practical soldier of for tune, Col. Grove had had machine guns mounted on the Palace roof and had mobilized the carabineers. They faced the soldiers. General Moreno left to brave Col. Bravo the work of telling Col. Grove, "You must surrender by 11:30 p. m. or we bombard the Palace...
When Luby J. ("Jack") Doty, Memphis city employe, recovered consciousness last year, he found that the motor car in which he was going fishing had overturned, exploded, burned two companions to death, seared his back and legs. Piped he: "I'm not a dead soldier." Doctors placed him face downward in a sheet steel oven kept at 103° F. to keep his raw back from chilling (TIME, March 28). Where the seared flesh cleared up, doctors grafted skin. Last week indomitable Jack Doty sat on his front porch, virtually healed, after 412 days in the oven...
Artist Grosz's picture of Christ on the Cross wearing a gas mask and Wellington boots (an illustration for the novel, Schweik the Good Soldier) got him and his publisher convicted of blasphemy in 1928. When Grosz explained he had meant only that Christ might have been conscripted in the German draft, they were acquitted...
...Ulster Unionists, schooled him at England's rugged Rugby. He became a Roman Catholic in 1920, joined the Irish Republican Army, was taken prisoner by Free State troops during the Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam O'Flaherty is his good friend. Flying is his sideline. Unpublished...