Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish War Veterans stirred in their chairs, whispered together. "Sit down," they muttered. "Shut him up!" But the speaker went right on and said his say, for he was a veteran in perfectly good standing. More, he was Captain William S. Ortman, chief of the Capitol police, a body whose opinions on the behavior of statesmen should be intimately informed but is seldom solicited. He had attended several Dies hearings and "didn't think it was fair to let people get up and talk without proper evidence, so I stopped going. A lot of those witnesses were mentally...
...Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies & committee but with veterans and their organizations. Said Veteran Ortman: "They're beginning to think the country is permeated with "isms" when . . . the American public is 99 44/100% pure...
Photographer George William Harris, founder of Harris & Ewing, veteran Washington, D. C. photographers, reminisced that Alice Roosevelt Longworth is the most photographed woman in his collection, Calvin Coolidge the most photographed President and "the best dresser that ever came to Washington...
Jones, Labastie Veteran Follmen...
...short end of a very definite 4 to 2 score. And in the same week the Varsity continued in the win column with a win over Princeton in its Quadrangular League opener. Then last week the squad came very close to beating a strong Dartmouth team and battled the veteran Elis to a 2 to 2 overtime deadlock at New Haven...