Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later, when due rites ha been observed, Japanese had 1,148 more gods to worship, the spirits of those who died last year fighting in Manchukuo. This new battalion brought the total ( Japan's deified warriors...
CAPTAIN OWEN ERNEST JENSEN 13th Battalion. Fleet Marine Corps Reserve Los Angeles, Calif...
...five minutes to seven last Sunday evening a squad of actors and a battalion of New York University students, New Jersey high-school children and boys' club members were assembled in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country...
...Jailed by Nazis in Germany sits the Big Red after which this battalion is named, Comrade Ernst Thalmann, once a Presidential candidate in Germany (TIME March 21, 1932 et seq.). *Poet Brooke died on the island of Scyros in 1915 , bloodpoisoning contracted during the Dardanelles campaign...
...spindly sort, he had once been threatened with tuberculosis, knew there was small danger of his being chosen as an A-1 specimen. In 1918 he was finally called up, drafted into a Labor Battalion. One night of that was enough for Noel. He pulled wires, got transferred to the Artists' Rifles...