Word: garrisoning
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...That the peacetime garrison of the Canal should be strengthened from the present 8,000 or 9,000 men to 12,000 or 15,000. In the recent attack, half of the Canal guns could not be manned because of insufficient personnel; a landing was effected and a fort taken by hostile marines because the garrison was inadequate...
...death of Henry Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard, his son, inherited the paper, In 1917 the younger Villard sold The Post to Thomas W. Lamont. Mr. Lament was understood to have spent much money on The Post, and it was common talk that he "dropped a million or two" in it. Early in 1922 he sold the paper to a syndicate of 34 men headed by Edwin T. Gay and including Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Willard Straight, Clarence M. Woolley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshall Field, Charles C. Burlingham, Cleveland H. Dodge, August Heckscher, Finley J. Shepard, George W. Wichersham, Paul...
...soldiers took the child to their barracks, placed it under the care of a physician. Each man of the garrison made a gift to the orphaned child; later, at the christening, the baby was baptized "Little Moses of the Bulrushes...
...characterizations are very well done. Walter Gilbert is a handsome movie hero; Mark Kent is his valet, who is responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...
...telegram, signed by more than 100 congressmen and sent to President Obregon, who was vacationing at a little fishing village on Lake Chapala, alleged that General Arnulfo Gomez, chief of the Mexico City garrison, had commissioned one Captain Viscarra, at the head of 200 men, to assassinate certain members of Congress, in particular one Jorge Prieto Laurens, Governor of the State of San Luis Potosi...