Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in honor of Mother's Day, Secretary of War Woodring urged every U. S. soldier to write a letter to his mother. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt said that flowers on Mother's Day were "sweet and nice," but something ought to be done for the 14,000 mothers who die every year from childbirth. A Manhattan tobacconist displayed a selection of women's pipes and four men in Philadelphia were arrested for breaking into a greenhouse and stealing 2,000 Mother's Day carnations...
Herr Ossietsky was not only anti-Nazi but deeply against all German militarism. He served like Adolf Hitler as a front-line soldier during the World War, came out of it with reactions exactly opposite to those of the Führer. While Hitler toiled and finally succeeded in awakening German militarism to fresh and grandiose efforts, Ossietsky labored as the editor of the German pacifist Weltbühne. The late, great German Nobel Peaceman Dr. Gustav Stresemann said that without Ossietsky's preparatory work he should never have been able to carry out his policy of rapprochement with...
...hrer should drive past at 8:30 p. m. Soon the German Dictator sat up as though startled and amazed by the vast Roman Colosseum which seemed to be afire, glowing within by the light of thousands of red torches, while in each arch an Italian soldier stood at attention, silhouetted in full war gear; his steel helmet sharply outlined...
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...effective dissenters in the country. Born in Germany of peasant stock in 1847, he was brought to the U. S. when he was three months old-a circumstance that kept him from being the Populist candidate for President. With his health permanently weakened by fever contracted as a Union soldier, he wandered through the West, became a lawyer in Missouri and settled in Chicago in 1875. He had married a childhood sweetheart, written a liberal study of prison reform, and served as a judge, when he won the governorship...