Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to be suppressed with other obscure newcomers. Insistently he demanded that the Government cash its soldier bonus certificates in full. Secretary Mellon tut-tutted him as a wild young man. But Congressman Patman kept harping away on his issue until he had started a backfire among the veteran vote that was stopped only when Congress, over the President's veto, raised the loan value of bonus certificates to 50%. In that fight was born his dogged antagonism for Mr. Mellon which culminated in impeachment proceedings...
...Steel Corp. buzzed like a jigsaw last week with talk of new management, for President James Augustine Farrell had resigned. The news came suddenly in the middle of the night from the steelman's Manhattan home. As he faced the specially summoned reporters the tall, burly veteran of 51 years of steel showed little sign of his age. His ruddy face, topped by white hair, frames a pair of cold blue eyes. Written in his own handwriting, President Farrell's statement said his resignation had been accepted by the board to take effect April 18 but that...
...plot fails to interest, and if Miss Miller's graces are not enjoyed, at least everyone should feel repaid for seeing the film as he watches the antics of W. C. Fields, that veteran comedian of the stage whose finesse and superbly funny acting is worth the entire admission fee. As a humble barber and former vaudeville and circus performer, Fields in this film finds himself at a fashionable dinner of the ball bearing concern. With calm mien and steady eye he uses the aerial route to pass two eclairs from one end of a table to the other. Both...
Playing its first week-end out-of-town game, the University hockey team travels to New York tomorrow, where it will meet a veteran University of Toronto sextet at Madison Square Garden...
...Hallowell, Jr. '32, Arthur Foote '33, J. M. Fox '32, B. E. Estes '32, and F. D. Murphy '33, who excel in the distance events; J. B. Hawes '32, A. C. Forbes '32, and J. W. Crickard '33, whose specialties are the sprints; G. W. Kuehn '32, veteran shot putter; N. P. Dodge '33, J. M. Morso '34, and J. B. White '34, who are middle distance runners...