Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), restrictive immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1924-27), tax increase (1932). Federal Farm Board (1929). the "Lame Duck" Amendment to the Constitution (1932), bonus loans over veto...
...included General Arturo Puga, president of the Junta which was formed at the same time as the new Cabinet, and Defense Minister Colonel Marmaduke Grove. The sudden "illness" of General Puga was invoked as an excuse for not announcing Don Carlos' resignation. Taking the standoffish attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty in protecting the Socialist Republic." General Puga, mum as an owl, retired...
Brown-shirted Fascists massed and milled last week outside a squat, soldier-guarded mansion on Berlin's famed Wilhelmstrasse, shouted qualified approval of the occupant. They roared not "Hail Hindenburg!" but "Hail Hindenburg who ousted Brüning!" Plainly the only thing about Germany's Cabinet upset (TIME, June 6) which pleased the Hitlerites was that it meant the end, after 26 months, of what Germans have called the "Brüning System...
Said Citizen Smart, bowing and jingling his medals, "As a soldier I will obey the edict of the court...
Wherever the Smarts went, the reporters were sure to go. Next day they followed the children to school. Arthur and Elizabeth, they noted, did their work well, enjoyed the experience. Soldier Smart followed them about, too, but assured the reporters he would not interfere...