Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the door guarded by eight old, ash-smeared priests. There is a moment of silence and suspense. Then slowly the door is raised. Through it comes a painted Hopi holding a writhing rattlesnake in his teeth. The snake is held by the middle, head and tail dangling free. (Veteran carriers look down upon those who hold their snakes by the neck.) Behind the "carrier" is a second Hopi, called a "hugger," his arms about the shoulders of the carrier, one hand holding a feather wand which he brushes across the snake's face to occupy its attention. Behind...
Spain's mid-August heat is dry, oppressive. Business, traffic and government move slowly. Public officials leave Madrid for a rest, as did President Niceto Alcala Zamora last week. But heat meant nothing to a veteran of Moroccan campaigns, swart General Jose Sanjurjo,* good friend of the late Dictator Primo De Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs...
Delegates to the Geneva Disarmament Conference were all on their way home last week for a breather before reassembling sometime between September and January, having completely baffled the world as to what they had really accomplished. Almost as baffled was tall, hawk-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, veteran of a dozen conferences, who last week followed lese-majestic Herbert George Wells (TIME, Aug. 8) as guest lecturer at the Oxford Liberal Summer School. He mused that "if Europe and America agreed on a common world Disarmament policy Japan could not stand out alone against it." But as the actual record...
...touring the country to register complaints of anyone whose profession or business the Government impedes by competition. Last week the committee was in Kansas City. To it hastened merchants, manufacturers, farmers, and Kansas City's foremost x-ray man-Dr. Edward Holman Skinner. Dr. Skinner, a War veteran, wants the Government to cease building hospitals to treat injured veterans. He wants only those veterans who were disabled by actual military servive to get free Government medical care. At present any ex-service man can get free treatment or hospitalization no matter what the origin of his ills. Under certain...
...Government buried Veteran William Hushka in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors...