Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), the Soldier Bonus (1924). His own campaign declaration about himself: "There is probably no greater friend of the World War veterans than Colorado's Senator Lawrence C. Phipps...
...hailed as a masterpiece, in spite of the fact that its author, Arnold Zweig, had constructed it awkwardly. If Herbert Brenon, who directed the picture, had torn down the book and built it properly, starting the story at its real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous implications involved in the in justice of Grischa's imminent fate, he might have made a masterpiece. Instead he allowed the anecdote...
...Soldier...
...William Holabird, established the firm of Holabird & Roche early in the century. Son John, 43, was born in Evanston, went to the Hill School, to West Point, to the Beaux-Arts. In 1919 he joined his father's firm, helped design the Chicago Temple Building, Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field, famed scene of Tunney's second victory over Dempsey), Palmer House, Stevens Hotel, all of Chicago...
Author Paul tells this fantastic story as if it had happened to himself, and so plausibly that it ceases to appear fantastic. The narrator, a U. S. newspaperman in Paris, gets into talk with another ex-U. S. soldier in a café, and hears a strange yarn about a signalling detachment of 40 women who managed to get up to the front. Their commander, Lieutenant Alberta Snyder, had drilled them into a fine body of women. During the drive against the Hindenburg Line they did yeoman service at the field telephones; an infuriated but harassed commanding officer allowed them...