Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandon or depart from its traditional duty toward the American Negro. ' Then President Hoover shook hands with his fellow Republicans, was photographed with them. ¶While President Hoover was laying the cornerstone for' the new Post Office Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue, one Edward Wells, war veteran, yelled "hurrah for Roosevelt!CPolice clapped Veteran Wells in jail, said he was drunk...
...Only one veteran, Captain Arthur Foote '33, is available as a nucleus for the team this year, although several second string men of last season are expected to show up well. Ranking next to Foote from last year are J. M. Estabrook '34, James Parton '34, and A. B. Hallowell '34, J. W. Putnam '33, T. A. Robinson '34, J. V. White '34, J. B. White '34, and J. E. Rogerson '34. Hallowell will probably be unable to run due to a recent accident...
...cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert Marshall, able English stage veteran, grinds out an unsympathetic thankless supporting role; Dickie Moore unfortunately remains Dickie Moore; and only to Cary Grant may credit be given for breaking the Teutonic spell of wooden, unimaginative direction...
...almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant, vulgar and low"; Lalanda. "unquestionably the master of all present fighters"; Freg, the Mexican veteran who has 72 wounds, has been given extreme unction five different times...
...resign with the announcement that he had just discovered that his grandfather was a Negro, it would cause no more commotion in the U. S. than shook Germany last week at the news about Col. Düsterberg. Germany's Legion is the Stahlhelm, an organization of 1,000,000 veterans which plays politics frankly, drills on all occasions, was organized by a retired soda-water manufacturer named Franz Seldte and is drilled by a veteran of the Imperial General Staff: Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Düsterberg, "Second in Command of the Stahlhelm...