Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After taking his degree at the University of Edinburgh, young Dr. Sutherland went to Spain to assist his uncle, who had a practice at Huelva. There he saw many a bullfight, became cronies with El Litri, veteran matador. Twice Sutherland "played" a bull in a tentadero (practice fight). The first time, after two successful passes, the bull got him, might have killed him if El Litri had not bounded to his rescue...
...18th Amendment looked so close last week that even a good professional Dry like Prohibition Director Alfred Vernon Dalrymple was in favor of letting distilleries resume production immediately under government license to stock up for the coming deluge. "Major" Dalrymple, a hefty, red-faced A. E. F. veteran who spent years chasing 'leggers, personally opposes Repeal which would cost him his job. Yet at New Orleans he declared...
...devoured almost 10,000,000 soldiers. This picture book details the four-year repast in 513 photographs chronologically strung together on shrill newspaper headlines of the day. The result is not history as the historian writes it but war as every veteran remembers it. Here are the actual sights of battle which evoke its sounds as well-the off-stage hammering of long-snouted guns, the lazy pouf of shrapnel in a blue sky, the invisible stutter of machine guns, the pink of rifle fire, the scrunch of mud, the loud curses, the grunts of the living, the groans...
...Washington a 30-year-old married woman lost her job with the Interstate Commerce Commission. She went home in despair, turned on the gas, died. ¶ At Dayton a Spanish War veteran who had been drawing $60 per month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide...
...When he comes out of the combat without wounds, without disability, a veteran has no right to raid the Treasury perpetually because he was called into the contest-called in under draft, too, when it was a question of being shot here or shot at abroad...