Word: dragoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...
...village of Les Ribierés, France, Dragoon René Drouet borrowed an automobile, sped through the streets screaming: "Hitler is marching on Paris!", started a panic. Arrested, facing military discipline, Dragoon Drouet faltered: "I thought it would be a good joke...
...Used by all dragoons since the original dragoon regiment was formed in Hungary during the 15th Century...
...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...
...that proposal be not pleasing to the American Federation of Labor we offer the alternative proposal that on the first day of February 1938, the entire membership of the American Federation of Labor, horse, foot and dragoon march into the Committee for Industrial Organization. . . ." After a little chuckle, he asked: "Fair enough? Fair enough, boys?" The miners clapped, and then uprose to howl approval as they got the point-that with C.I.O.'s voting strength John Lewis stood to win either way. Even Bill Green in Miami chuckled when he heard the proposal-and dismissed it as "impossible...