Word: belleau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pléiade, or Brigade as it was first called: a literary constellation including also Poets Du Bellay, Boif, Belleau, Pontus de Thiard, Dorat, and Dramatist Jodelle. Ronsard "launched" the group in 1549 with a literary critique urging a return to the classics...
...Commander at Quantico Training Camp. Not until May of 1918 was he ordered overseas. He commanded the 64th Infantry Brigade, the 4th Marine Brigade. He was named Major General. Late in July, he took command of the 2nd Division. Who needs to recite the familiar roster of its glories? Belleau Wood, Vaux, Saint Mihiel, Blanc Mont, Argonne-Meuse offensive. It suffered 24,000 casualties, the greatest of any U. S. division. It captured 12,000 prisoners-one-quarter of the entire number taken by the U. S. Army. Now Lejeune, the gallant fighter, the able tactician, the great disciplinarian, Commandant...
...Dunker '25, President of the Student Council, announced last night that the Council had unanimously approved the request of the Belleau Wood Memorial Association that Harvard students be asked to contribute to the Endowment Fund for Belleau Wood...
...gift of 25 cents is all that is asked. This entitles the donor to membership in the Belleau Wood Memorial Association and will help towards establishing the contemplated $100,000 Endowment Fund which the Association has been endeavoring to collect throughout the United States in order to have a permanent fund with which to keep the historic battlefield in good condition. Contributions may be mailed or left in the Crimson Building in care of D. B. Fleming...
...fall in the War and a private in the French infantry, who volunteered for service in 1914 although an American citizen, of Major Edward Ball Cole, who commanded the 1st (later the 6th) Machine Gun Battalion of the 4th Marine Brigade and died of wounds received at Belleau Wood, and of Elbert Walker Shirk, a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy Flying Corps, who died...