Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Hoover gave a garden party to 800 disabled War veterans. To a man in a wheel chair who said he was soon returning to California, the President remarked: "Fine! I'm not a native but I've lived there long enough to know what's the best place for a disabled veteran. It isn't often a Californian can be happy anywhere else very long...
...Allen a Veteran...
That John Watts '28, veteran Harvard stroke, would again set the rhythm for a Harvard eight was learned last night when plans for a naval contest between Eli and Crimson alumni oarsmen wore disclosed in their primitive state...
...outplayed the Rhode Island Staters 9 to 3 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. Both teams had their moments of wildness, while the unconservative style of play put on by the visiting nine provided considerable excitement for the onlookers. Taylor proved quite effective as the Harvard pitcher, performing like a veteran against the scrappy but none too powerful batters of the losers...
Died. Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, 51, of the U. S. Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...