Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Budget Director Douglas lies a hard anonymous job, one that will make him many enemies, no friends. Upon him rests the party pledge of cutting Federal expenses 25%. But he is a do-or-die budget balancer and, though himself a veteran, is committed to "purging the pension rolls," even to the extent of knocking out the $400,000,000 now paid for non-military disabilities. When it comes to Government spending, able "Lew" Douglas, with the President's backing, will issue crisp orders to the ten members of the Cabinet the theory: they will obey...
Painter Hayden, war veteran and former mail carrier, was earning his living as a window washer and scrubman on Park Avenue when he won his first art prize, $400 and a gold medal, in 1926. His employer added $3,000 and sent him abroad to study. Painter Hayden managed to make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus...
...Hardy in the 50-yard dash. Kane in the 300-yard run, Merwin in the high hurdles, and Joe Mangan in the mile run. He was pleased with the general performances of his team except in the weight events. The weight men had a poor day according to the veteran Cornell Coach, unusual because Cornell for years has been noted for its strength in those two events...
...made its report to the Board of Trustees. Several nominations had been made, supported by various people, and speeches favoring this man or that were in progress when one of the oldest members of the Board took the floor. "Mr. Chairman." he said, "I am a Southerner, a Confederate Veteran, and a Democrat. I have voted for the last time for any man solely because he is a Southerner, a Confederate Veteran, or a Democrat. My vote on this question goes to the man whom I believe to be best qualified for the presidency of this University. That...
Last week Governor McNutt, scholar, lawyer, War veteran, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the American Legion, explained what had happened: "People today demand ACTION. We have prepared our government to permit action. . . . State government has been getting out of hand. To bring it back under control demands centralization of power and a broad grant of authority. That power has now been granted in Indiana. . . . Instead of being the servant of the people I have become the slave of the people...