Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago veterans' hospital there is a War-mangled soldier who will be loaned tuition fees to a school of aeronautical engineering...
...Hurricanes, whose team had gained the finals by its single victory. British sportsmen, dismayed by the fate of Eastcott, more anxious than cocky U. S. prognosticators, awaited news of the encounter of Roark and Hitchcock in the final chukkers of the Open Championship. Despite his successive defeats, friends of Soldier-Poloist Tremayne insist that he is not one to quail before enemy fire; that he will next year return to competition...
...Pershing was the logical man as he was on the ground, knew the situation and was thoroughly competent. General Pershing did the best he could notwithstanding the many embarrassing handicaps which .were placed upon him. He demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of the administration that he was a soldier through and through, one who would loyally obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief without question or complaint. How natural it was a few months later when the same administration was looking for a commander for the A. E. F. that it should turn to this soldier of ability...
...which enabled the President to promote Pershing from captain to brigadier general has unfortunately been revoked-the law that "ave us such men as Pershing, Wood, Bell, runston. Now the Government can do nothing to Accelerate the promotion of a brilliant soldier it finds down the list but such a man must wait or those above him to die off or retire...
After the battle, the potent U. S. S. Olympia shared with Admiral Dewey an hour of fame. In 1921 antique U. S, S. Olympia bore the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to Washington. Today obsolete U. S. S. Olympia rusts away in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Navy Department recently proposed to convert her into a few thousand dollars worth of scrap iron...