Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tablet in memory of the late Major General Leonard Wood, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor General of the Philippines, has just been placed in the Memorial Church in the Yard by the 16 men who served with him as aides-de-camp during his lifetime. General Wood was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1884 and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
...inspiring habit of marrying heiresses, but there was one time when Austria was truly great, when Vienna saved Europe. In 1683 the Turks under Sultan Mohammed IV made a last attempt to conquer Western Europe. An army of 400,000 men swept into Hungary and across the Danube to camp under the gates of Vienna. They never got inside. Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who had under him a man destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene of Savoy. Again...
...they had whispered out of the corners of their mouths to the enlisted men that many of the officers were still loyal to Machado, that Provisional President de Cespedes planned to cut the Army's numbers and pay. Last week a little band of sergeants walked into the Camp Columbia barracks of the very officers who had overthrown Machado. Firmly and none too politely the sergeants told their superiors they were through. Word traveled fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt...
...Dictator Machado when the enlisted personnel had not the nerve to do this alone. We are willing to return to our commands as soon as all the enlisted men announce their willingness to return to their ranks." Out in his Vedado suburban home which resembled an armed camp, ex-President Menocal received correspondents. "The present government," said he, "can last only a short time. It is composed of men who broke their solemn promise to set up a government representative of the entire island, made when the various factions conferred on Saturday. The promise was broken before they had officially...
...with the white folks gone the slaves began to fade away. Grammy had been left in charge, but finally he faded too. In New Orleans he was much surprised to be told he was free, not nearly so surprised when he and his family were herded into a guarded camp. Freedom was not what he had heard it cracked up to be; enforced idleness gave him the blues. Penny became a voodoo priestess. When their baby disappeared Grammy was sure she had kidnapped and killed it. He looked for her, found her, was caught in a red-handed murder...