Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerge from the muckraking Department of Commerce investigation that followed was the ship's chief radio operator, pudgy George White ("Sparks") Rogers. Having stuck to his key until he was hauled out of the radio room half-suffocated, Sparks Rogers was decorated for his heroism by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association...
...what veteran Paris correspondents saw as "a curious victory along strictly party lines," the Chamber quietly voted the new Cabinet confidence, 369-to-196. It was a curiosity that the Popular Front Premier kept offering in the lobbies to resign in favor of a National Union Cabinet, kept finding insufficient takers...
...keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour has been a believer in making a Four-Power Pact between Britain, Germany, France and Italy as a first...
...addition to the two veteran, starting pitchers of a year ago, Ed Ingalls and Slim Curtiss, the mound staff will be composed of Tom Healy, Don Prouty, John Mahoney, and Lefty Edinberg...
...opposition to the Cambridge fifteen, which averages 180 pounds in the back-field and 200 on the front line, the Crimson will have such football notables as Princeton's Pepper Constable Bill Watt, Mike Cohen, Joe Kennedy, Pete Knapp, and George Downes, along with veteran ruggers Captain Ned Whitney and Henry Miller...