Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never in my eighty-odd years of life," rasped the veteran Virginian, "have I known or heard of a more humiliating spectacle than that presented by the legislative body of a great, rich and powerful nation spending months in devising expedients to contravene immemorial requirements of international law through positive fear of a Central European assassin...
...unemployed in the U. S., Pennsylvania Railroad last month added W. E. S. Miller of Woodbury, N. J., George Carr of Lindenwold, N. J., 22 other furloughed clerks. Being veteran Pennsy employes and substantial citizens of their communities, Messrs. Miller & Carr decided to do something more than eat up savings, look for Relief, or moan to the neighbors. What they did was to form a "Legion of the Damned...
...Among German Army officers the problem of accepting the Bolsheviks as allies has been less difficult than it has either for veteran Nazis or for the shopkeeping and white-collar middle class of Germany. . . . Older officers of the Prussian vintage have favored a Russian alliance for 20 years and they are reported to be worried only over the price-in Poland, in the Baltic Sea and possibly in the Balkans-which Hitler...
...unexpected situation arose when Miss Mildred Madigan of West Roxbury, a veteran baton twirler, attempted a coup d'etat between the halves. The 19 year old blond, trying to win a sorority bet by leading the Band, was prevented from getting on the field by Robert M. Peebles '40, manager...
...Government by selling to another arm-the War and Navy Departments. Its new lines: aircraft parts, ordnance, armored truck bodies. To help win a place on Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson's clubby suppliers' list, Hayes Body went last week and got a new president, veteran Munitions Salesman John W. Young...