Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While cocky Mr. MacCracken was getting his habeas corpus writ. Col. Brittin, gaunt and bespectacled Spanish-American and World War veteran who had learned to fly at 55, began his prison sentence in the dingy red stone District jail. The warden asked him what he could do. He said he knew clerking...
John Fairgoer was found to be 29.15 years old. Taller and heavier than the average World War veteran, he stood 5 ft. 8.1 in. high, weighed 153 Ib. Jane Fairgoer was two years older than John. She weighed 138 Ib., was 5 ft. 3.65 in. tall...
...integral part of the story, Lionel Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran, full of pride, a musty love affair and corn whiskey. Best shot: Barrymore, under the delusion that he is again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to shoot himself dead in the back yard. Silliest shot: a ball at Connelly Hall immediately after the First Battle of Bull Run attended by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson and Beauregard...
DURANTY REPORTS RUSSIA - Walter Duranty-Viking ($2.75). The best-known U. S. foreign correspondent is an Englishman. Like his compatriot, Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, Walter Duranty is a veteran at his post. Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last...
Authoress Mayo charges that the real "forgotten man" in the U. S. pension muck is the actually disabled veteran who is often too self-respecting to join the scramble for aid. Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad...