Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain R. D. Fallon '33, will be entered in the 50-yard free-style, with either H. M. Howe '34, or E. P. Parker '34, as his running-mate. They will face Jennings, a veteran mainstay of the Lions. Jenning's best time is 34 3-5 seconds, which mark all three Harvard contestants have equalled at one time or another during the season. The 50-yard dash is expected to be perhaps the closest race...
Whiteside managed to have a crew row at 5 o'clock last night which had Captain Bancroft at 5, Bacon at 6, Cassedy at stroke, and Yeomans at 2, all members of the four-mile crew which defeated Yale at New London last year. Three other veterans of that crew did not row. Hallowell at 4 and Holcombe at bow will not row until next week and Saltonstall, veteran seven, will not be available for crew until the varsity hockey season ends...
Shortly after the Civil War an undersized, red-headed youngster, son of a local newspaper editor and Confederate veteran, used to be known around Lynchburg, Va. as "Pluck" because, with eyes blacked and nose bloody, he had a dogged way of fighting on & on against awful odds. Last week the Senate paid handsome tribute to "Pluck," now a small hawk-nosed Senator of 75. By a vote of 54-to-9 it passed his bill to reform the national banking system and tighten up loose screws in the Federal Reserve machine...
...early 1920's War-Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...
...tricks which First Division Exchanges, Inc., distributors, advises exhibitors to use for publicizing The Big Drive: "On opening night, have supposedly shell-shocked veteran simulate a seizure. Use this as a basis of letters to editors of all newspapers, arraigning the idea of bringing back the horrors of war. Follow up with a dozen letters from legionnaires, etc. defending the picture as an argument for peace...