Word: brig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 58, onetime British Army officer, author of The Men I Killed, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, etc.; at Walton-on-Thames, England. General Crozier's experiences in the wars, from which he drew his books, made him a famed, bitter pacifist. Last week as he lay dying, Army officials were soundly berating him because in his latest book, The Men I Killed, he said that in the World War British officers shot their own and Portuguese soldiers to make them fight...
...produced a $42,468,000 company. Mainly on body business from such motor makers as Ford, Chrysler and Packard, Briggs last year earned $9,266,000. To diversify its manufactures the company has lately developed a line of lightweight stamped iron bathroom fixtures with a porcelain finish called "Brig-steel" which it says is cheaper to ship and install than conventional products...
...Died. Brig. General Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, U. S. A., retired, 69; onetime (1932-33) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey; longtime member of the International Olympic Committee; of heart disease; in Paris. Last winter he was instrumental in persuading the U. S. Olympic Committee against boycotting the games to be held in Berlin next month (TIME...
...went to a party, I could not stop. When I came home after a two-day absence I bought flowers and threw them through the door. If they didn't come flying out, I would go in. ... Later I went to one of these Oxford Group meetings . . . "-Brig. General Erie D. Luce, U. S. A., retired...
...Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death...