Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat to Ait Yacoub, 13 French were killed, 93 wounded, captured or missing. It was the bloodiest fight since...
Popularly obscure may be Union Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses...
Such men as J. P. Morgan the Elder, Henry Villard (capitalistic father of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the present Nation, pink weekly), Edward Dean Adams, Grosvenor P. Lowrey (patent attorney for Mr. Edison), Robert L. Cutting (Manhattan banker), Ernesto Fabbri (Italian-born Morgan partner) and his brother, Egisto Fabbri (shipping), S. B. Eaton (Manhattan lawyer), William H. Meadowcroft (Thomas Edison's confidential secretary), Jose D' Navarro (builder of Manhattan's first elevated railway), J. Hood Wright (Morgan partner) and Norvin Green (President of Western Union Telegraph) became actively interested in Inventor Edison's new project...
Vernon Monroe Jr. '31, of New York, polling the largest number of votes on the Sophomore class ballot, received a total of 121 counts with John Bright Garrison '31, of West Newton, six votes behind him. Samuel Lawrence Batchelder '31 of Boston was the third member of the Class of '31 to be elected...
...Square. After going around the rotunda the engine will proceed by way of the college yard to the "station house" on Holyoke St. The apparatus is an exact reproduction of the original engine used by the Catamounts. R. McH. Chilson '31, J. C. Fiske '30, J. B. Garrison '31, E. L. Gates '30, Barrett Hoyt '30, and Pliny Jewell, Jr. '31, who will be garbed in the costumes of the "Fire B' hoys" will pull the engine on its maiden trip...