Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President...
...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
Capone bellowed angrily: "James M. Cox and his Miami News is responsible for this damned outrage." He told Miami's Chief of Police Guy C. Reeve that, as a War veteran, he deserved better treatment. Snapped Chief Reeve: "I was in the Army too. Don't talk to me. Shut...
...beloved veteran will be succeeded by Alois Lang, a woodcarver, of whom he is a distant relative. There are some 200 Langs in Oberammergau. Alois is tall, robust, 38. In 1922 he lost the election to play Jesus by only a few votes, thereafter understudied Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout...
Fincke, catching for Batchelder, served notice on the veteran that when the latter's finger heals he will have a fight on his hands to win back the receiving...