Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Army would not be soft-soaped. Rheumy old eyes glowered as the proposition was voted down. Piped one stern-principled New Jersey veteran: "They were WRONG back in 1861. . . .When they admit it, and not until l then, will we join them. . . . Let them fold up their battle flags. . When they put those flags in museums, then we will believe they want reunion...
...Foreign Min- ister. Now he may revel in honors of rank at last due him. Three Quadrumvirs. Three members of the famed Quadrumvirate who strode with II Duce on the March to Rome in 1922, when he seized power, were given Cabinet posts last week. General Emilio De Bono, veteran of the Lybian and World Wars received the important Ministry of Colonies. General Italo Balbo, the leading Italian authority on military aviation, a clever flyer, a keen observer who visited the U. S. last year, was made Minister of Aviation. Michele Bianchi, one of Signor Mussolini's oldest friends...
...Italy's Chief of Staff during the World War, becomes Minister of War. Rear Admiral Giuseppe Siriani, one of the most brilliant and successful seadogs in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 gets the Marine Ministry. Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai. As editor of Roma Futurista, Epoca and Giornale di Roma at various times he has had broadest experience with men and masses. As Minister of Corporations he will supervise not great in- dustrial enterprises but the Fascist syndicates or "Corporations" which are really employes' unions and employers...
...Then he proceeded with oldster colleagues to Ottawa; Canada, and won a tournament of the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association, a one-round medal event for a cup presented by the U. S. seniors.* His card was 77, two strokes better than Charles D. Cooke of Arcola, N. Y. Veteran tennis players appeared last week on the courts at Forest Hills, L. I., for the national veterans championship. In the first round, swarthy Franklin Pierce Adams, 47, New York World colyumist ("The Conning Tower") was eliminated 6-0, 6-0 by an unseeded entrant. The eight seeded players survived together...
...line which has been working ahead of these ball-carrying veterans is even more of a nature to lead to the belief that there is something definitive about the selection of an early season first team. All the trusted linemen of last year who have returned for the present campaign are to be found in this forward wall. The ends are J. G. Douglas '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, both lettermen, the tackles Captain J. E. Barrett '30 and F. S. Davis '30, the former one of the outstanding tackles of last year and the latter a veteran...