Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade the citizens of placid little Le Mars, Iowa (pop. 4,700) have been puzzled by the goings on of tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
Skeets Canterbury, veteran coach of Crimson goalies, has three lettermen competing for the net job this year in Dave Mittel, Vint Freedley, and Howard Johnson...
...Veteran of the modern world's strong men, once called by Britain's Lord Balfour the "most terrible of all the terrible Turks," Atatürk nevertheless left his country with all the forms of democracy intact. To those who looked last week at Turkey as the first real test of what happens when a dictator dies, the answer could be given that Atatürk, admirer of parliamentary government, was not a dictator in the same sense as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Those democratic forms which Atatürk nurtured functioned well last week...
...world's promising pianists were still taking lessons from long-haired Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt. Of Liszt's pupils today, only a few white-haired oldsters survive. Of these survivors only one can still draw a crowd to a concert hall; a stocky, orange-whiskered veteran named Moriz Rosenthal...
...Reading, Pa., Civil War Veteran John ("Hollerin' Johnny") Wells celebrated his 100th birthday, gave his explanation of why he was still alive: the fact that he "ran like blazes at the second battle of Bull...