Word: brig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source...
...trouble started with the Army Appropriation Bill of 1920, into which Brig.-General William Mitchell, then assistant Army air chief, caused to be inserted this language...
...special platform were Rt. Hon. Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor; Rt. Hon. Brig.-General Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, and a fringe of subsidiary dignitaries. Bravely ignoring the gripings of acute indigestion, Commander Amy clutched a bouquet of posies, embraced her beaming parents, listened to speeches of welcome, spoke cheerily into a microphone...
...BRASS HAT IN NO MAN'S LAND? Brig.-Gen. F. P. Crozier?Cape & Smith...
...typical brass hat (staff officer) was Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 119th Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade...