Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crude tented amphitheatre set among the Ozarks of Arkansas last week was made the first presidential nomination for 1932. Nominee of the Liberty Party was William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, So, half-blind veteran of the "free silver" era of politics. His nominators were half a thousand discouraged Republicans, disgruntled Democrats, disgusted Socialists, Populists and Independents who gathered from 25 States. Plain, thin-pursed men with faces stamped with sun and soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least...
...reached for his rifle and fell with three bullets in him. So rough was the trail that it took 18 hours to carry the old fighter's body five miles to the nearest village. Up and down the length of Cuba went another story. General Peraza, veteran of four wars, had been killed...
With his city's financial apparatus toppling about him, one veteran banker stood out. He was President Henry Lawrence Thompson of Toledo Trust Co., with $44,401,000 in deposits and "The Strongest Bank In Northwestern Ohio" for a slogan. He announced that his institution had $25,513,000 in absolutely liquid assets, would remain open and keep paying until everyone was satisfied. To show that he meant business, trucks from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank drew up to his doors laden with $11,000,000 in crisp new currency. At the end of the day four other Toledo...
...present when a gangster kills a policeman, are terrorized by the gangster's subordinates to dissuade them from giving evidence against the murderer. First the gangsters kidnap and beat the father. Then they kidnap and prepare to despatch his urchin son. Finally, a spry, flask-nipping, Civil War veteran grandfather (Chic Sale) rescues the urchin. He wobbles into court munching his whiskers and ready to give the district attorney (Walter Huston) a star witness...
...personages who were to attend the christening, four were most acutely concerned: quiet, young Commander Rosendahl, about to receive the Akron as his command, a veteran of 3,333 hr. dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...