Word: reservist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storm-clouded skies over Tampa dropped an airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...
...price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that the British Empire should abandon its traditional policy of opposing the creation of huge conscript reservist armies in peace time by France and her allies: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania...
President of the Dunbar National Bank is Joseph D. Higgins, 36 years a banker, onetime (1914-23) Federal Reservist, former vice president of the American Exchange-Irving Trust Co. There is one Negro on the directorate. He is Harvard-graduated Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of the late Roscoe Conkling Bruce, onetime U. S. Senator from Louisiana...
Participation by reserve officers in summer training is expected but not compulsory. Sickness or business may interfere without causing demotion. Promotion depends upon the efforts of the reservist himself...
Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Col. Palmer E. Pierce last week led forth New York's famed 77th Division for reservist maneuvers along a "battle front" in New Jersey and Pennsylvania...