Word: brigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reorganize its demoralized police department, Phoenix, Ariz, last March hired on a go-day contract Brig. General Pelham D. Glassford, onetime Washington, D. C. police chief, made famed by his tactful handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. Last week frank, efficient General Glassford finished his tour of duty, reported on his discoveries about Phoenix vice in an extraordinary letter to the city's officials, ministers and social service clubs. Excerpts...
...seaman named Pulanski, furious when one of the men discovered a piece of string in his ice cream, had threatened to have it out with the mess steward. Ashore at Naples, three men had been beaten up by their fellows. Captain Gregory clapped two of the assailants in the brig. At Genoa the ship was delayed when part of the crew staged a protest meeting on the dock. After intervention by the U. S. Consul, the prisoners were released, to be sent to California as first-class passengers in another ship. A seaman who gave information to the President Garfield...
...Brig. General Pelham Davis Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police during the 1932 Bonus March (TIME, Aug. 8, 1932), began a 90-day reorganizing job as police chief of Phoenix, Ariz., where he has run a small wheat & alfalfa ranch since his retirement from Washington three months after the Bonus Marchers withdrew...
...your March 9 issue under Army & Navy you state that Major General Johnson Hagood. U. S. A., is the nephew and reverse-namesake of Brig. General Hagood Johnson...
...plain namesake of Brig. General Johnson Hagood of the Confederacy, and Governor of South Carolina one term of two years, about...