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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veto bonus legislation. But $3000 a head for each soldier killed or wounded in the war is not enough tribute, according to the beneficiaries, the living. "Gimme, gimme", is the unending cry of the veterans, Who for the most part never saw a German shell. "I wore a uniform, didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SACK OF WASHINGTON | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

...proceeding in that direction at all because the French Premier coupled this concession with the notice that there would be a need for simultaneously declaring mobilization of several classes of reservists. No French Deputy in his senses, with an election impending, can vote for putting thousands of electors into uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITIAN: Much Vaguer | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

After handing the jury a portrait of her shrinking husband in army uniform, Mrs. Spencer got down to the business of explaining why their two daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smart Spencers | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline, tossed '"Swifty" White into the street for making a nuisance of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Uniform traffic laws and regulations for all states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Comparative Poll on Current Events and Leading Political Questions Begins Tomorrow Throughout Harvard | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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