Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relates to the lines on p. 27 in By the Way which were written in Arlington Cemetery, Washington when I was there in 1928 and I was standing by the National Tomb at the time. In my notebook above these lines I had written for reference ''Unknown Soldier, Arlington'' and never noticed until the other day that the initials of these three very significant words are just simply U. S. A. "Still a funny old Codger," I hear you say. Maybe...
...people do not like to have to apologize. An atmosphere of "now he's going to get it" quickly surrounded General Butler. It was remembered that Smedley Darlington Butler, whose bravery as a soldier has won him two Congressional Medals of Honor and the Distinguished Service Medal, has always spoken as he fights, recklessly, ferociously. When he was Philadelphia's Director of Safety, charged with cleaning up speakeasies and vice, his robust language (sample: "I ought to pull his [the mayor's] nose") got him ousted after about a year. He went back to the Marines...
Wayward Winnie. Most exciting political move of the week happened outside Parliament. The performer was moon-faced Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, one-time (1924-29) Chancellor of the Exchequer, No. 2 British Conservative, soldier, War correspondent and 100% Tory. Early in the week Stanley Baldwin had given grudging approval of Scot MacDonald's attempt to solve the Indian problem...
Weary but affable in the Cabinet room, President Hoover sat for his portrait to Douglas Chandor, scion of Hungarian nobility, private soldier for England throughout the War, poet,* linguist, painter-extraordinary for TIME.? In the Green Room, Mrs. Hoover sat for Artist Gleb Ilyin, Russian emigre, now popular in California...
Emissaries from His Majesty (who 16 years ago was a private soldier) were in Paris last week. In their entourage was a group of French and Dutch jewel experts who have just examined, catalogued, appraised the Persian Crown Jewels at Teheran...