Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time passed veterans began to fall ill from disabilities really contracted in War service. The compensation laws were constantly revised and relaxed to include them in Federal aid. Soon developed cases of men whose service disability was questionable. Congress thereupon declared that any veteran taken ill before 1925 should be presumed to have contracted his disability from the War seven years before. Despite this legal stretching, the system remained one of compensation and not of pension...
Pension Demand. After 1925, War veterans became disabled and destitute in civil life but could receive no aid from the Government because the period of presumption had run against them. As their numbers grew, politicians became interested in them. Demand for an oldfashioned pension system which would care for these disabled in civil as well as military life arose. Last April the House in a reckless mood passed a bill to advance the date of presumption of World War disability to Jan. 1, 1930 (TIME, May 5). Fortnight ago the Senate passed (66-to-6) the same bill over...
...veteran hoofer, Mr. Cohan is qualified to put plenty of credible pathos into the part of "Hap" Farrell, of Carroll & Farrell -Songs, Dances & Funny Sayings. With the death of his partner, "Hap" falls upon evil days, tries to rob a man, is regenerated and goes out West where he makes some money. So inexorable is the fascination of life on a tank-town vaudeville circuit that he returns to a profession in which he can never be successful just because "every song & dance man always thinks he is the best one in the world...
Another academic year is drawing to a close and some 300 Freshmen have completed their work in French 2. This veteran first-year course, so frequently criticized, is still unblushingly unreformed...
...Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters are a company of an English regiment he calls the Westshires. Hero is Bourne, a gentleman ranker, who has come through the Somme battles with his two chums, Shem and Martlow, without a scratch. Not regular soldiers, they are veterans now, have the veteran's point of view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable as possible betweenwhiles Fellow enlisted men like and admire Bourne, have seen him proved in action, but feel the difference between his class...