Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three "A's" were condensed as one on a clean new blanket which the 30th Infantry, now stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, last week draped upon Arizona and then saluted. While the men marched by him, Arizona, little knowing that he had committed "valor under fire," but doubtless remembering many a whack on the behind in the days when he dragged a field gun, rolled a mulish eye at Brigadier-General Frank C. Bolles and mulishly munched carrots...
Next comes a sequence in which one of the German soldiers in the squad refuses to fire and is promptly shot by his officer for so refusing. At the sound.of this shot the cinema Nurse Cavell faints and is shot by a soldier as she lies unconscious...
...larger crowds, a remedy became necessary. The annual erection of wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace, and informed the University last autumn that this threat must be removed. Hence according to Mr. Bingham's report, Harvard must be satisfied with the present stadium without wooden stands, or one plan of the several submitted for enlargement must be adopted...
Violence. Since the well-guarded Commission was not actually attacked, the points of significance with regard to violence were that at Madras British police were obliged to fire upon the mobs, killing two Indians, in order to restore order; that in Calcutta a mob of 10,000 students hurled brickbats and battled with police and soldiers who did not fire; and that throughout India numerous instances were reported in which the automobiles of British private citizens were attacked and partially smashed, though no Briton was reported killed...
...largest textile mill in the world) announced a 10% cut, and the game was on. The Newmarket Manufacturing Co. of Newmarket, N. H., followed suit. In the huge textile centre of Fall River, Mass., the Stevens Manufacturing Co. and the American Printing Co. lead the way. Just before the fire last week (see p. 11) the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers' Association announced that all its members had put into effect a 10% wage cut. This included such potent firms as the Algonquin Printing Co., American Linen Co., Davis Mills, King Philip Mills, Lincoln Manufacturing Co., Sagamore Manufacturing Co., Granite...