Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Gurtler, Sudeten-born Canadian citizen and, during World War I, immediate superior (sergeant) of a wispy corporal named Adolf Hitler; as a Canadian private...
After receiving more advice from Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, Lieut. Burke asked a nearby rifle range to lend him its No. 1 marksman, a marine sergeant named Michael Peskin. Few minutes later Marksman Peskin and six guardsmen armed with submachine guns and 30-calibre rifles piled into a picket boat, shoved off for the Amazone, hove to southeast of Cape May, and their first lion hunt...
...than most diplomatic arbitrators show, the River Hai (pronounced High) flooded Tientsin-Japanese and British Concessions alike. Barbed wire on wooden trestles and wooden sheds for searching and stripping were washed away. The barbed wire blockade was off; a water blockade-of the whole city-was on. ^ In Shanghai, Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting of Army and Navy officers...
Soldiers demanded money-or-life from the Rev. John E. Williams of Nanking University and when he objected, they shot him, stripped him, and walked off (an eye-witness said) "chatting with each other as though they had shot only a pig or a dog." The body of Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marines was found shot and bloated in the Whangpoo River at Shanghai. Nanking's British Harbor Master was killed, too, and one French and one Italian Roman Catholic priest...
Twenty-one years ago a red-headed giant from the Tennessee mountains named Alvin Cullum York singlehanded killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to rugged Fentress County as No. 1 U. S. war hero. Last week Sergeant York, fat, arthritic and peace-loving, visited San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair, confessed: "I don't know what the last war was about...