Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coincident with the British plan for withdrawing foreign fighters came a report from a veteran correspondent with the Leftists, New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, that the Barcelona Government has dismissed its two remaining international divisional commanders, has given orders that all international brigade commanders are also to be relieved of command. The divisional commanders to be dismissed: 1) a German Communist who fought as Lieut.-Colonel "Hans." first commander of the German-Slav Thaelmann Battalion, later promoted to command the 45th Division; 2) a Polish Communist, General Walter, who commanded the 35th Division, which includes Americans...
Jack Radway '38, a veteran at the College oar, takes the number five berth. He rowed five on the Third Varsity and had experience on the 1935 Yardling outfit...
...Veteran Producer David Wark Griffith's 23-year-old The Birth of a Nation is the most famous motion picture ever made. When the film was first released in 1915, its vindictive story of Reconstruction race hatred and avenging Klansmen roused considerable passion. Manhattan Negroes secured the elimination of several scenes that contained an "appeal to race prejudice." In Washington, during the Anti-Lynching Bill filibuster last winter (TIME, Jan. 24), it was picketed off a local screen...
...broguish, shrewdly philosophical Sergeant O'Hara of these volunteers, Cinemactor Robert Montgomery atones for much past preciousness, affirms what many cinemagoers discovered last year in Night Must Fall (TIME, May 10, 1937)-that he is an excellent actor. In his third cinema role, veteran Play Actor Charles Coburn (The Better 'Ole) gives a solid, bitter-edged portrayal of Dr. Carlos Finlay...
...veteran Boy Scout leader and Cambridge School Committee members stressed the need for organized play and for trained sociologists and psychiatrists in preventing crime and juvenile delinquency...