Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered for him. He never spoke to his father without snapping to attention. When he was three or four he had for a nurse an ancient harridan who had served as a canteen woman in the Napoleonic wars. When little Paul so far forgot himself as to cry. this veteran would bellow "SILENCE IN THE RANKS!" It always worked...
...Justice." For President Hoover, famed for his warm heart toward children, the answers made sorrowful reading. The Commission found that the U. S. is far behind the States in dealing with juvenile delinquency. Girls and boys caught in the Federal penal system are not reformed: they are herded with veteran criminals, flogged, thrown into solitary confinement, underfed, tortured in body & mind...
...South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...
...history, Wallace Johnson, a sporting-goods salesman who seemed always trying to compensate for his plebeian occupation by the languidly patrician gestures of his chop-strokes, Vincent Richards, who remained almost perpetually the boy wonder of U. S. tennis. When Johnston retired, Richards turned professional, Williams grew too veteran to be brilliant for more than a day at a time, there appeared on the scene a great second-growth of younger players. These-George Lott, John Van Ryn, Berkeley Bell, Gregory Mangin, Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey; John Doeg-were the ones who caused the difficulty. All were young collegians...
Leading executives of Snorkey & Co. indicted last week were: Joe Fusco, business manager of the syndicate's beer department; Bert Delaney, superintendent of manufactures; Steve Swoboda, veteran brewmaster. Snorkey is liable to two years imprisonment, $10,000 fine if convicted. Federal punishment now hanging over the head of the arch criminal: 34½ years in prison, $90,000 in fines. So impressed was Snorkey by the magnitude of the threatened punishment, it was said last week, that he offered to "compromise" the case with the Government by payment of $4,000,000. But officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue...