Word: caissons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Council and the dean's office approved a similar organization last year in the army ROTC, the Caisson Club. No complaint was made at that time, according to Alexander, because the Council and the dean's office "did not notice" the compulsory dues-paying requirements of the organization...
John Hurst (Lowell)--President, Freshman Athletic Council; P.B.H.; Caisson Club Executive Board; Varsity basket-ball...
...remains were taken from the Ethnographic Museum, reverently laid on an artillery caisson, and drawn by 138 young reserve officers in a procession that stretched for two miles. Behind a military band playing Chopin's Funeral March slowly marched 80,000 Turks, including the President, the Premier, every Cabinet minister, every parliamentary deputy, every provincial governor and every foreign diplomat. Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations. Ten generals and two admirals escorted the coffin, while another admiral guarded a velvet cushion which bore the Medal of Independence, the only decoration Ataturk ever...
...Marines sing From the Halls of Montezuma, the Navy sings Anchor's Aweigh, the Air Force sings Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, but the nearest thing to an Army theme song is the old horse-artillery number, The Caissons Go Rolling Along-and few soldiers have seen a caisson since World...
...floodlighted group around the speakers' platform, an aisle opened and the crowd saw Presidential Nominee Dwight Eisenhower, square-shouldered, striding briskly. The scattered cheering of the crowd rose to a roar, and through it sounded the bouncing blasts of the field-artillery march-The Caisson Song. Eisenhower, trim in a blue suit, was at the microphone waving and smiling, with Mamie Eisenhower at his side. The music changed to Dixie, Mamie threw a kiss to the crowd, and the crowd began to chant "We want Ike." Chairman Martin waited for a few minutes, then stepped to the microphone...