Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would amount to a repeal of the Tariff Law." He insisted that the patrolmen had been ordered to use their guns only for self-defense or to prevent the commission of a felony, but later announced that he would forbid the carrying of shotguns and rifles by the border patrol...
...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, the hard-bitten U. S. Marine who lately returned from commanding a China patrol force, last week declared to the Wayne, Pa., Chamber of Commerce...
Hotels and office buildings have obliterated most of the original posts, but the annual boundary patrol still marches, the choir boys are vigorously bumped against office desks, lamp posts-whatever objects stand on the traditional spots...
Troop E, 10th Cavalry, under First Lieutenant Drury, coming to the rescue of the patrol, was fired on by cavalry of Yucopicio then going into position to attack Naco under Topete. When the error was discovered after a pack horse had been shot, the Mexican officers very kindly offered hot coffee. International relations...