Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because Japan had withdrawn her fleet from the defense of the western Pacific area, it did not follow that the mandated islands would promptly fall. Each garrison on each isolated isle would undoubtedly fight bitterly...
This kind of spiritual guerrilla warfare has been solemnly credited with helping last summer's Jap evacuation of Kiska, in the Aleutians, after U.S. forces had mopped up the garrison on nearby Attu. A copy of the Government-owned Japan Times and Advertiser cited four "miraculous'' incidents...
...been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to Europe. Butler fired him. Cattell fought back so fiercely that his house in Garrison-on-Hudson was nicknamed Fort Defiance. Cattell's good friend, Historian Charles Beard, quit the University. Cattell sued Columbia for $125,000, finally forced it to settle...
After practicing privately for ten years. Dean Garrison became professor of Law at Wisconsin. Following his appointment as Dean of the Law School there, he worked on many government commissions. He was the original Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, a member of the Federal Steel Mediation Board, the President's Commission on Industrial Relations in Britain and Sweden, and the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure and Bankruptcy...
Through his work in the American Civil Liberties Union and his contribution to The Nation and The New Republic. Dean Garrison has become a household name in liberal circles. His extensive work in labor relations, including his chairmanship of the NLRB with its job of handling the Smith boys, has made him one of the outstanding authorities in the field of labor law, and one of the best-known mediators in the nation...