Word: garrisoning
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When the Fascist ax & rods drove the Lion of Judah from his Ethiopian home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
...quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully last week in his strategic bailiwick which lies close to Peiping on the north and east, when suddenly his Peace Preservation Corps, every man a Chinese, started using their Japanese weapons against the Japanese garrison at General Yin's capital, Tungchow...
This "Chinese treachery," as indignant Japanese at once branded it, was smartly timed. About 3,000 Japanese troops recently made up the garrison, but 2,900 had just marched away to help suppress "rebellious Chinese" trying to strike a blow for their country at nearby Nanyuan. It was all in the day's work for the Japanese garrison of 100, although taken by surprise and outnumbered by 10-to-1, to stand off the Chinese. These peppered the Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing...
Liberal young Lawyer Garrison crusaded against shyster ambulance chasers and bankruptcy grafters in New York City in the late 19205, was called by President Herbert Hoover to undertake national bankruptcy studies for the Department of Justice in 1930. President Roosevelt called him to be chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, later a member of the short-lived Federal Mediation Board for the steel strike. His decision in the Houde case (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), ruling that representatives of the majority could bargain for all employes, has since become the Wagner Act's chief Labor weapon. Wisconsin...