Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edith Wynner to the contrary, men in general, who have been in a front-line dressing station during an attack, who have chewed up a towel or two to keep their screams from blending with the shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak with an authority acquired in 18 months spent in such widely separated military hospitals as Royat, Brest, Fox Hills, Cape May, Camp Dodge and Fort Sheridan. Edith's contacts with war-shattered wrecks must have been...
...announced early last week that plump and amiable Empress Menen of Ethiopia would speak to Britain and the U. S. over the short-wave radio. Italian spies were not caught napping. No sooner did Her Majesty begin in halting French, than on the same wave length blasts of Morse code gibberish drowned out her words. What she was saying in Addis Ababa...
...President Gar field's master thought that an "unseen force" was at work. Other ships of U. S. registry were also having crew troubles. Reports of a "wave of insubordination" aboard U. S. merchantmen were getting worried attention in Washington...
...Hoover's "G" men were running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...
Today the underworld fears and respects the "G" men, but the time must come when criminals and hardened gangsters will shudder at the very mention of Mr. Hoover and his cohorts. To cut down on the funds for this department would be to encourage crime and send a new wave of criminality to prey upon the public...