Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon the undefeated Freshman baseball team will meet Thayer Academy on Soldier's Field in their third game of the season, after overwhelming St. Mark's School and Milton Academy in the First two encounters of the year...
...Began hearings on bills to pay off the Soldier Bonus at once and in full...
Last week the Congressional tide for paying off the Soldier Bonus at once and in full continued to rise.* At the Capitol pro bono publico became pro bono politico. In the House 167 members were said to be down in writing as ready to support Bonus legislation, more than enough to force a roll-call vote. Fifty more members were reported as "favorable"' while only 91 were definitely ''opposed." Somewhere in the House background was said to be a colossal petition signed by two million veterans calling for Bonus cash. Though the American Legion was nationally committed...
...they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native of the village below, and deeply in love with the wife from whose arms war has torn...
...prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills the caddish officer for cheating in the card game. Elissa Landi is suspected of the crime and the only witness who might help her, an ex-soldier, is so paralyzed by the spectacle of murder that he can neither write nor speak. This catalog of misfortunes is further expanded by interruptions in a minor romance between a young Oxford man (Alexander Kirkland) and a London art student (Barbara Weeks). Good shot: Beryl Mercer gasping as a hand...