Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President did not say what islands they will be. But Chief of Staff Eisenhower said: "On Okinawa a garrison of approximately 33,000 Air and Service Force troops will be permanently stationed." The U.S. Navy has indicated that it wants to keep at least nine major bases in the Pacific. A House committee is now on a Pacific appraisal tour...
...this select list were the three brothers of Emperor Hirohito. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, 43, educated at Oxford, a lover of English tweeds and Swiss ski slopes, once likened the code of Bushido to the chivalry of King Arthur's Round Table; he served with Tokyo's military garrison. Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 40, more retiring than his older brother, was last week reported giving counsel to the Emperor on government reform. Prince Takahito Mikasa, 30, who likes the strenuous life, once made an eye-filling picture while training as an Army cavalryman at Yatsu Beach near Tokyo...
Having thus stated management's demurrer to the Walter Reuther case, Lawyer Merritt and the entire G.M. delegation walked out, left the panel and the union to do what fact-finding they could on their own hook. (Chief Fact-Finder Lloyd K. Garrison, visibly angry, pointed out that his panel had not yet asked General Motors for any earnings information and was not even sure that it would...
...conference room at the Labor Department, the heads of General Motors and the striking United Automobile Workers sat facing each other across a horseshoe-shaped table, presided over by Fact Finder Lloyd K. Garrison and his two assistants, North Carolina's Judge Walter P. Stacy, Kansas' Milton Eisenhower (brother of General Ike). Few facts were being found. The union's Walter Reuther insisted on a 30% raise unless "shown the arithmetic" to prove that such a raise would force higher auto prices. The company refused to lay the figures on the table before "the hungry eyes...
...which still puts her scholars before her soldiers audibly protested. Students staged sympathy walkouts in other cities. Kuomintang partisans blamed the incident on "malicious elements." But Generalissimo Chiang, who was opposing Communist extremists in the north, now turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city's garrison commander, General Kwan Lin-cheng. He sent his Vice Minister of Education, Chu Ching-nung, to make an inquiry and offer amends. For hurling the fatal grenades, two men were executed on the spot of the crime...