Word: reservist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...
...chuted from a floundering transport, leaving his passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
...citizens. The car of U. S. Trade Commissioner H. D. Robison was smashed by an army truck (TIME, March 14). Commissioner Robison was punched in the face. Japan paid the garage bill and cut the truck driver's salary. Miss Rose Marlowe was severely beaten by a civilian reservist when she attempted to enter the ruins of Chapei. The reservist was sentence to 15 days in jail. China and Japan were still deadlocked over peace terms. Firing on the Shanghai front had almost ceased. The League of Nations Commission arrived, was taken for a drive through the ruins...