Word: brig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered into the Black Sea to protect French nationals from Bolshevist attacks. One day the Protet was ordered to fire on Russian towns to break Red morale. Second Officer Mechanic André Marty persuaded his fellow sailors to refuse to bombard defenseless citizens, threw his superiors in the brig, hoisted a red flag in sympathy with those on shore. For his mutiny André Marty was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, of which he served three...
...plenty of civilians. The Army proposed to use civilian eyes & ears. An Army reservation surrounded by civilians, and big enough for a variety of targets and ground defenses, was the Field Artillery's Fort Bragg, 100 miles inland from the North Carolina coast. Two months ago, Brig. General Fulton Quintus Caius Gardner went to work to sharpen civilian eyes, prick civilian ears in 39 counties and 20,758 square miles around Fort Bragg. In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters willing to look & listen from...
...successive nights and mornings, the Air Corps' Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad sent Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") and Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked...
Married. Grace Vanderbilt Davis, only daughter of Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Henry Gassaway Davis III; * to Robert Livingston Stevens, whose grandfather founded Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; in Ridgewood...
...takes the count. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck. the better to display a fine figure of a lass named Arleen Whelan, has shifted many of the novel's best scenes to strange and shadowy positions, has relegated to the attic the memorable ball-and-cutlass siege of the Brig Covenant's roundhouse, has made storied Patriot Alan Breck (Warner Baxter) play nursemaid...