Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French pacifists compulsory military service in France has been reduced within the past two years from three years to twelve months. As every sergeant knows, a year is net much time to make a soldier. Fortnight ago, just as the French Army was preparing for its annual autumn maneuvers, Minister Maginot announced elaborate and expensive plans for a completely "motorized" force. The French press which always barks obediently when politicians crack the whip took up the chorus. Loudest was the semi-official Temps...
Jimmy De Mers of the Los Angeles A. C. threw his arm out of joint the first time he tossed the javelin. That was too bad for him but a good thing for the British Empire v. U.S. track meet at Soldier Field, Chicago, last week. It made things exciting for a while. De Mers had been considered certain to win the javelin-throw, and his winning was counted on to give the U. S. a point it would need. One event seemed certain to be won by the British team-the one-mile medley relay, for little Eddie Genung...
...lover, 150,000 lovers of sentimental music and spectacle from what the Chicago Tribune calls "Chicagoland" one night last week had a grand time. At Chicago's Soldier Field 4,000 contest winners from 35 midwest cities roared the Hallelujah Chorus, 1,100 musicians blared through such barber-shop favorites as "Home, Sweet Home," "Sweet Adeline," a squad of "Blacksmiths" banged 6-in. sparks from anvils in time to Il Trovatore's Anvil Chorus, cannons on the lakefront boomed for Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Proceeds of the festival went to charity...
...finger was not the only outrage to British women in China last week. Mrs. A. R. J. Herne, wife of a British engineer of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, was sleeping in their house on the outskirts of Nanking some distance from her husband's bedroom. A Nationalist soldier on a rampage broke into her bed room, stabbed her with his bayonet, making the third attack unfortunate Mrs. Hearne has been subjected to since she went to live in China. "If brigand threats of further outrages are carried out," he warned the Nationalist Government, "the result will be a deplorable...
...Brass Hat in No Man's Land has raised a squall of controversy in England. Soldier Crozier's frankness has enraged many an old soldier, many a brass hat, many a colonel. Next October he is coming to lecture...