Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responding to the political demand of minor War-veteran organizations for a cash payment on their Adjusted Service ("Bonus") Certificates as a form of Depression Relief, the Senate Finance Committee last week began hearings on this proposition. Opposed as ever to cashing this Government obligation 15 years before maturity was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon...
...once M. Aristide Briand, veteran foreign minister, was asked to form a cabinet but deferred in favor of a "young senator" sometimes called his protégé, 56-year-old Pierre Laval. The arrangement was made by telephone, for M. Briand was at Geneva. Returning to Paris he was met at the station by 200 politicians, all anxious to become ministers in the Laval cabinet...
...close friend of Dictator Machado's onetime friend, General Menocal (now of the Opposition), is doughty Sr. Arturo Rente, veteran of the Cuban shooting affrays of 1916. Last week as Sr. Rente sat sipping coffee in a Havana cafe he sneezed, sneezed again, sneezed a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh time, coughed, gasped, spat out a bullet, sighed with relief. The bullet was smooth-polished after spending 15 years lodged in the roof of Sr. Rente's mouth, whence surgeons had dared not remove it. Long ago they predicted it would make Sr. Rente an idiot...
...Soucy '16 has been appointed by the Harvard Club of Boston to sound the existing feeling among the graduates regarding the organization of a crew from among the numbers of veteran Harvard oars, now members of the club. Although plans have not yet become definite it is supposed that the crew would be housed in one of the University boathouses, which already owe so much to contributions from the Harvard alumni. Such a graduate crew is anticipated with enthusiasm by the Union Boat Club, whose recent crews have felt the need of a definitely competitive season...
Died. Professor John William Burgess, 86, political scientist, Civil War veteran, founder in 1880 of Columbia University's School of Political Science and dean until 1912 of its faculty, first Roosevelt Professor of American History and Institutions (1906-07) at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin; in Brookline, Mass...