Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: Tax reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), Farm Relief (1929), the Tariff (1922, 1929), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Immigration Restriction (1923). He voted against: The Soldier Bonus (1924), the 18th Amendment (1918), the Volstead Act (1919), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), Boulder...
President-elect Olaya for 13 minutes. He was No. 1 guest at a State dinner at the White House, at another at Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson. He got a presidential salute at Annapolis, laid a wreath on the Washington tomb at Mt. Vernon, wreathed the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery. He was ceremoniously lunched at the Pan-American Union...
...PRIVATES WE-Private 19022-Putnam ($2.50). Says Arnold Bennett, booster of books, preferably British: "Her Privates We will be remembered when All Quiet on the Western Front . . . is forgotten." Like the German novel, Her Privates We is a record of personal experiences in the trenches, as the plain soldier knew them. It too is plotless, simple narrative, un-propagandist, unrhetorical. Its author has preferred to remain anonymous. Says "Private 19022": "The events described actually happened; the characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters...
...which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel but not understand what it meant when his parson father was ostracized and persecuted because he was against the War, when his soldier brother, not much older than Tony, shot himself in France because he acquired a venereal disease. Tony grew up outwardly normal, attractive, good at games, mildly social; inwardly he was stunted, emotionally infantile. Post-War girls find him tantalizing, do their best to seduce him, succeed only in making him withdraw...
President Chiang Kai-shek, the greatest soldier South China has produced in modern times, once conquered all China (TIME, June 25, 1928), but is today president in fact of only an ill-defined area in central China with its capital at Nanking...