Word: hockman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days later the Italians were at it again, bombing the U. S. Red Cross Hospital at Daggah Bur where Dr. Robert Hockman was killed a month ago when he toyed with a dud bomb. Italian marksmanship was, as usual, poor; there were no casualties...
...leading U. S. Red Cross physician in Ethiopia, Dr. Robert William Hockman, who has made a persistent hobby of investigating dud Italian air bombs, buried a 970-pounder with the remark, "It's got my name on it, for after the war." Investigating what he took to be another dud at Daggah Bur last week, he was blown to atoms...
Italians charged that Ethiopians were firing dumdum bullets from rifles and machine guns made in England, Belgium and the U. S. last week. The compliment was returned by U. S. Presbyterian Missionary Doctor Robert W. Hockman of Jijiga. Said he: "Even the use of dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when...
Chaffe 1G, of Warwick; Haskell Charles Freedman 1L, of Cambridge; David Earl Hockman 1L, of Cambridge; Roy Lamson, Jr. 2g, of Cambridge; Lester Snow King 3M, of Cambridge; David Anschel Nathans 1L, of Cambridge; Joseph Patrick Maloney 1G.B., of Cambridge; George Henry Sage 1G.B., of Dorchester; Harold Snyder '31, of Cambridge; John Francis Groden 1L, of Cambridge; Martin Canavan 1G.B., of Cambridge; and Wendell Daniel MacDonald '31, of Cambridge...