Word: brig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tipped off Buenos Aires newsmen. Theiraccounts of the case stirred up local lawyers, who got the ship's surgeon to examine Mariquita. He testified that she had a high fever, might not survive the voyage. For this he was arrested by the Spanish captain and thrown in the brig...
Three unidentified undergraduates, in a glorious attempt to chop down the Eli goal-posts under cover of night after the game Saturday, ended up in the New Haven brig under charges of trespassing and attempted vandalism...
After leaving the Navy, Al Williams continued to fly (for Gulf Oil Corp.). He also continued to write, plugging mightily in his Scripps-Howard newspaper column for a separate air force on a parity with the Army and Navy. The late Brig. Gen. William ("Billy") Mitchell earned fame and martyrdom by doing the same. But Al Williams, on the Marine Corps's inactive list, considered that he was writing as a civilian. In a column last February he ripped & tore at the Navy's sacrosanct Selection Board (for arranging to kick out eight of the Navy...
Last week George Marshall got down to hard pan. To his office he summoned Brig.General Adna R. Chaffee, who commands the Army's only mechanized brigade; Brig. General Bruce Magruder and Lieut. Colonel Sereno E. Brett, who long have championed tanks in the infantry. Up to now, the mechanized brigade has been a stepchild of the cavalry; tanks have had a secondary place in infantry organization. Result: the U. S. Army has nothing remotely resembling Hitler's armored divisions, up to last week seemed to be moving with dreadful slowness toward getting anything like them...
...three warships slipped out into the Gulf of Mexico. As shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers, but three men who were once described at the White House as "the only three fellows around here who don't give a damn about politics" -hearty Brig. General Edwin Watson, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire-his military and naval aides, his doctor...