Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing last week presented My Experiences in the World War, in book form, to take its place beside the military memoirs of Foch, Haig, Hindenburg, Ludendorff.? Dedicating his volume to the Unknown Soldier, the only commander since George Washington to lead a U. S. Army throughout an entire war focused his full attention upon the military contribution of the U. S. to Allied victory. Outside the range of his crisp impersonal narrative are the billions of dollars, the tons of supplies and food with which the U. S. bolstered up France and Britain after...
...petition signed by 40 Cornell students, urging that the name of Hans Wagner, German soldier, be added to the list of 264 other Cornell men on the university's new $600,000 World War Memorial was placed in the hands of authorities yesterday...
...Their Majesties and their party, accompanied by the Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson, the Siamese Minister and the Acting Chief of the Protocol Division, will leave the residence for Arlington National Cemetery to place a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...last to the finish. At the first mile he was four lengths in front. Brose Hover, even money favorite and last year's winner, with seasoned Crawford Burton up, took a nasty fall at the second jump, but Burton had remounted and was coming on behind. Sea Soldier was running easily in second place. Well back, though still in it, were the black & white silks of Bostonian Sumner Pingree's Soissons, ridden by Jack Skinner...
...timber-jumpers. It was boggy in the standing land and treacherous in the hollow. Bunching himself for a takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking off Sea Soldier's wraps and the lean horse stretched out on the flat three jumps from home and passed Reel Foot. The two horses converged at the water, and then the thing that happens so often when a tired horse is taking a bad jump happened to Sea Soldier and Reel Foot...