Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a House & Senate majority could or would not do in the way of specific pension reform President Roosevelt was now ready to undertake if given full power. Gladly would he become the "whipping boy" (his word) for the veterans, thus letting timid members of Congress pass the blame to the White House. His proposal amounted to sweeping the whole patchwork pension system aside and starting afresh on a merit basis. Those with real War hurts would be fully cared for-but not malingerers. If a veteran was so permanently and totally disabled in civil life as to become...
...middle of a dreary Munich bedroom floor two mice nibble every morning at a piece of sugar set out for them by one Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born veteran of the Imperial German Army, wounded, gassed, Iron Crossed. Six other men as obscure as himself suggest that he join their German Labor Party, give him Membership Card No. 7, written in longhand. Meeting on Wednesday, the Executive Committee of the Party elect No. 7 their Chief of Propaganda, are amazed when he rounds up a meeting of 130, flabbergasted when he sweeps all before him with a loose but passionate...
First rebel leader to be featured in dispatches was doughty old Colonel Aurelio Alvarez, veteran of Cuba's War of Independence. Having lost his four sons (killed allegedly by President Machado's secret police) he was reported in the field in Matanzas, heading a well-equipped raiding party...
Like a frightened recruit after his first day under fire, many a cashless U. S. citizen wondered last week about the grizzled veteran, Michigan, fighting along in its fourth week of banking moratoria. How was Michigan taking...
...Michigan and the world believed fortnight ago that Henry Ford, veteran foe of bankers, was about to become the State's greatest banker by taking over the strapped Guardian National and First National of Detroit and running them under his own novel ideas ("The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money"). Last week they learned that both banks had refused the Ford offer, changed their minds, were about to reorganize and carry on under new Federal and State emergency legislation. Delay in adopting the latter was partly traceable to antagonism between Detroit...