Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abbes, then to Fez and on to Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken up, but is a godsend keeping me up on what goes on in the mother-land...
...Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 64, onetime (1916-21) Viceroy of India and (1924) First Lord of the Admiralty; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime Governor of Queensland and of New South Wales, he was appointed Viceroy while serving as captain of a territorial battalion in a remote corner of India. Faced with widespread native unrest, he, with the late Edwin Samuel Montagu, in 1918 sponsored the plan which brought limited home rule to India, has since been the keystone of British policy there...
...after-dinner cigaret was shattered by the entrance of a U. S. marshal who promptly arrested him. Not even allowed to summon his own chauffeur, he was whisked downtown to a Federal judge in an automobile which the marshal had hastily borrowed. One of the prisoner's battalion of lawyers, Robert H. Thayer, suddenly called from a party, arrived in the courtroom in evening clothes, arranged for $10,000 bail. Two hours later the U. S. marshal dropped the prisoner at No. 934 Fifth...
...However," pointed out Mr. Greenough, "the Crusaders are fully aware that much remains to be done. There is a hard task ahead of us, and our national organization will work for speedy ratification in every state in the Union. The Massachusetts Battalion will leave no stone unturned to have our state the first to ratify. I agree with Governor Ely that the State Legislature should take immediate action to provide for a convention...
...individualist, voting his own convictions, following no one. leading no one. The Western insurgents can count on him no more than can the Old Guard. He plumes himself on his Progressivism, yet he is narrowly nationalistic to the core. When he entered the Senate he promptly enlisted in the "Battalion of Death" against the Versailles Treaty. Because like many another Californian he hates & fears Japan, he believes in the biggest possible Navy for the U. S. and therefore fought the London Naval Treaty (1930) almost singlehanded. He dislikes all foreign powers, suspects them of sinister plots against...