Word: arnhem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satisfied with the farm price support bill ... I know you people don't want federal control of education and your Congressman will fight that . . ." He said nothing about his wartime exploits as a paratroop officer, when he led a patrol behind the German-line near Arnhem, returning with 32 prisoners and without a scratch. Mostly he told the people about the issues of the 81st Congress, and how to apply for a Farmers Home Administration loan, wound up offering to send a weekly news digest from Washington...
Newberry lent the drawing, "View of Rhenen," to Fogg last year for the exhibition "Seventy Master Drawings." It gives a panoramic view of the old walled town of Rhenon, near Arnhem, with the spire of an ancient church on the right and the lower Rhine on the left. The work of Aelbert Cuyp, the drawing is considered large for its period...
...British brought to Batavia advance elements of their 6th Airborne Division (the "Red Devils" of Arnhem). The Dutch announced that 27 Netherlands battalions were...
Gloves Off? Back to their respective stations hurried the proconsuls. New levies of Dutchmen drilled in Malaya. French battalions disembarked in Indo-China. The British 6th Airborne Division, veterans of the Battle of Arnhem, stood ready at Singapore to buttress the strong policy in Java...
...Netherlands, the Canadian First Army found nothing easy. In Arnhem, infantrymen had to battle for every house. But in the Canadians' sweep to the North Sea, resistance virtually ended with the fall of Groningen...