Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More soldier bonus legislation was widely anticipated last week by House leaders who declared they could not stop the stampede for the veteran vote. After the tax bill is disposed of, the Ways & Means Committee will consider a measure of Texas' Patman to pay the bonus in full by issuing two billion dollars in fiat money. Last week Congressman Patman declared that, with the election coming on. President Hoover would not "dare'' veto his bill...
...nearly $55,000,000 from the independent offices supply bill, chiefly from the Veteran's Bureau, Farm Board, Interstate Commerce Commission...
...with a record of 11 victories and three defeats. One of the surprises of the year was the Purple's victory over Columbia in an overtime game played two months ago. Only one hoopster was lost from last year's team so this year's squad is composed of veteran players, two of whom were selected for the All-New England college team last season. Captain C. Good and W. Sheehan are expected to give the Crimson hoopsters much to worry about. The Purple ran out a string of eight consecutive victories this year and captured the "Little Three" crown...
Harvard's second line of Putnam, Saltonstall, and Pell exhibited its best form of the season, accounting for four of the six tallies, thus dimming the ascendant star of the veteran combination of Wood, Cunningham, and Baldwin. Putnam, who is developing an effective control of the puck that is proving a decisive factor both on defense and offense, took part in three of Harvard's scoring sallies. Saltonstall, who despite his willingness to mix things up and the possession of a powerful shot, has had difficulty in capitalizing his scoring opportunities this season, shook off his jinx...
Humble pie is not included in the rations of a general officer of the U. S. Army, active or retired. No exception is tight-lipped Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, veteran of many an Army campaign since 1892, who retired last year as Chief of Staff to become president of the Citadel, South Carolina's State military college at Charleston...