Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran of the Liberty Loan campaigns in 1917-19, who in 1939 is to be "a sort of coordinator of all banking problems for the Treasury"; Warren Randolph Burgess, 50, of Manhattan's National City Bank, a military statistician during World War I, recalled to duty last week as an expert on Government...
...Saar was to draw German troops from the Eastern Theatre to meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field...
Count Antoine de Saint Exupéry, novelist (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars), War I veteran and France's No. 1 airman; as a French Army pilot...
...life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...
...Paris last week, 400 U. S. veterans and 100 U. S. women registered at American Legion Headquarters for service in the Legion's volunteer ambulance corps. Soon to reach the Western Front, the corps consists of three ambulances, a portable garage, 20 stretchers, twelve drivers. Chief organizer: burly Dr. James V. Sparks of Indianapolis, veteran of the Lafayette Escadrille...