Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warner). On Oct. 25, 1854, the suicidal advance of 673 British cavalrymen into the teeth of Russian cannon fire through a valley at Balaklava, in the Crimean war, proved to be a maneuver less beneficial to England's military than to its literary history. Caused by a mistake in orders, the sole practical significance of the charge was to give the glamour of a spectacular British victory to what was really a minor British defeat. Its significance in literature, as the inspiration of Tennyson's famed ballad, will be considerably enhanced by this picture. The Charge...
Because British warriors on horseback have not lost their effectiveness against Indian tribesmen, the Indian Army will retain cavalry until 1939, but elsewhere British cavalrymen will exchange their bridles for handle bars or steering wheels, their whips for monkey wrenches, as fast as the whole new program of creating "mechanized cavalry" can be put through. For swank British cavalrymen that meant no more polo, unless they switch to motor-cycle polo. The social implications of this order burst last week like so many bombs in the messes of cavalry units slated for almost immediate mechanization: the King's Dragoon...
...horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy sons of generations of British cavalrymen becoming in a few months chauffeurs, mechanics and garagemen. "It takes 18 months to train a raw recruit to be a horseman," opined the technicians, "but who knows how long it will take to make anything else out of a horseman...
Crack-pated Manhattan Communists call the perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...
...South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with 210,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen had taken nine hours. Perched on the surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew of 120 U. S. cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert...