Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Certainly by 1950 at the rate we're now going the disbursements for veteran relief will equal if not exceed the total cost of our expenditures during the World War [$21,850,000,000]. . . . Veterans must manifest a peacetime patriotism in future demands comparable to that which brought them honor in the War if the burden upon the Government is not to become intolerable and reaction impair their cause. If we teach our young men that service to our country means the Government thereafter must reward them irrespective of need, then we are undermining the very foundation of good citizenship...
...greatly surprised last fortnight when modest, youthful Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl was given the most coveted station in naval aeronautics: command of the nearly-completed Akron, largest dirigible in the world. A veteran of 3,333 hr. airship flight, a survivor of the storm-torn Shenandoah, he is indisputably the Navy's No. 1 lighter-than...
...Washington went Lieut. Commander Rosendahl last week, to assemble for his new command a crack crew?about ten officers, 40 enlisted men?from the personnel trained aboard the Los Angeles (his old command). As second-in-command of the Akron the Navy picked Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley, a veteran of the Shenandoah and of five years service on the Los Angeles. Chief engineer, in charge of the eight Maybachmotors which will drive Akron at 83 m. p. h., is Lieut. Commander Bertram J. Rodgers...
...four-mile relay, handed over a five-yard lead to Fobes. Fobes, passed by Dean of Penn, left Hallowell ten yards behind McNiff; the star miler closed the gap to a stride with a sprint over the last furlong. Cobb, only a stride behind Penn's veteran miler the entire distance, ceded second place to Martin of Cornell on the last lap. Sutermeister, in the vault, seemed unable to command his usual power...
...Harvard Rifle team with shoot with the Boston College sharpshooters at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the Arlington range. The Crimson sextet will be led by Captain T. C. T. Buckley '32, a veteran of last year's team for the first match of this season...