Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George M. Cohan, veteran song-&-dance man, dramatist and Broadway's darling, has always been "regular." When it comes to patriotism he is not only regular but ready. Long before the World War he warmed up with such rousing ditties as I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy and You're a Grand Old Flag. When the War really gave him something to pitch to, Tunesmith Cohan wrote its U. S. theme song. Over There sold around 2,000,000 copies...
...Union Pacific reminds veteran cinemaddicts of many another picture, that is not strange. Paramount's 1,200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed, the 212th he has produced. Some signs that Producer-Director DeMille, who at 58 still affects the leather puttees and riding breeches of his salad days, is still going strong...
Introduced by Bruce Hopper '17, associate professor of Government, who attended Montana University with him, the veteran newspaperman spoke to a near capacity crowd in Harvard 1 and conducted a short forum afterwards. He began by attacking isolationism, likening it to a refusal to acknowledge the existence of small pox next door. "The present decay of world order amounts to ruination without representation," he said, citing the failure of diplomacy, the League, and armaments to solve international disputes...
...Gannett, veteran fly-shagger, is still unable to play, and this sends Rud Hoye, Bill Tully, and Joe Soltz into the outer gardens. Sophomore Gene Lovett may possibly break into the starting lineup in place of Soltz. Otherwise, the lineup will remain the same as the one which took the field against Princeton and Cornell...
...Veteran Henry Thompson and Sophomore Watty Dickerman round out the Crimson lineup. Playing on their home links again, the Crimson are favored to chalk up their third victory of the year...