Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State museum, brought back a stuffed chickadee to enlighten his urban colleagues. Senator Capus Waynick, editor of the High Point Enterprise, listened to Senator Hill's imitative calls, rose up to declare that the Carolina mockingbird was a better singer. In the House someone told Salisbury's veteran Representative Walter Pete Murphy that the chickadee eats insects. "For God's sake," cried he, "don't turn the chickadee loose on this House...
...first official game of the spring season, the Varsity polo team faces a strong Yale outfit tomorrow at 3 o'clock in New Haven. The Bulldogs, who have recently celebrated the return of their brilliant captain, Chu Baldwin, defeated the Tiger four 12.9. The Crimson has only on veteran in its lineup. Captain F. S. Nicholas '33. with two sophomores T. J. Davis Jr. '35 and S. F. Johnson '35. and one junior W. C. McGuckin '34 completing the combustion...
Ranged around to help Dr. Moley help the President was a corps of U. S. sub-experts, chief among them William Christian Bullitt, veteran of the Paris Peace Conference and unofficial man-about-Europe whom President Roosevelt fortnight ago put back into the State Department as a special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member...
Eight months ago while the Hitlerites scrabbled for power, their chief news- paper, Der Angriff, published a juicy scoop: Lieut. Col. Theodore Düsterberg, Imperial General Staff veteran, drillmaster and second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected that this news alone would be sufficient to force Col. Düsterberg's resignation. Not so; the Stahlhelm rallied round their leader with a proud announcement from their Berlin commander. Major Franz von Stephani: "The Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds...
...most delights local Gilbert & Sullivan audiences is veteran William Danforth. As the Mikado, garbed in a terrifying Shinto costume, he executes elephantine pirouettes, disgustedly squelches his interrupting female relatives with explosive "Phaughs...