Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been receiving only batting and fielding practice in the cage, with each infield getting a separate workout. The veteran outfielders are for the time getting warmed up in the infield. The coach has been showing his candidates the finer points of throwing the ball and tagging a runner...
...Bacharach bill provided for: 1) upping the loan value of bonus certificates from 22½% t0,50%; 2) reducing the interest rates from 6% to 4½%. A veteran who had already borrowed 2½% of the face value of his certificate could raise another 27½% on it. Veterans' Bureau actuaries estimated that this measure would cost...
...sighted move on the part of the representatives of the nation. The bill if repassed over the President's practically certain veto, will mean a demand of approximately one and a quarter billions of dollars on the federal treasure. About two million men, according to General Hines of the Veteran Bureau, will apply for loans if this bill, enabling them to borrow up to fifty per cent on the the face value of their bonus certificates, goes into effect...
...Colorado, the captain of the Porto Rican team, is a veteran debater of four years' experience, and has been here before. He and his two colleagues, J. E. Geigel and V. M. Gutierrez, will uphold the affirmative. Opposing them, Harvard will have H. C. Friend '31, G. E. Lodgen '32, and G. F. Oest...
...Victorine Putnam Pinhey,81, landscape painter, longtime resident of Paris, daughter of the late Publisher George Palmer Putnam; in Geneva, Switzerland, where she had lived five years with her sister Ruth Putnam, authoress, League of Nations official. She had six brothers: the late Major George Haven, Civil War veteran, longtime president of G. P. Putnam's Sons; Herbert, Librarian of Congress; Irving, president of G. P. Putnam's Sons; Kingman, retired Manhattan marine insurance broker; the late Bayard Taylor; the late John Bishop, father of the present George Palmer Putnam...