Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows: March, "Cruiser Harvard" Strube Overture, "Maximillian Robespierre" Littolff Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel Simmons Songs Fantasia, "Carmen" Bizet Largo from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia Rustic Dance, "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakow Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern Invitation to the Dance Wener-Berliez American Patrol Meacham...
Speaking at Barcelona, where he inspected a new palace that has been built for Alfonso and his consort, Primo said that business conditions were "not very good but not very bad"; that transit over road and railroad is now safe, because of the vast military forces which patrol them; that the country is under military law only until he (Primo) has finished administering his political purge; that the majority of Spaniards favor the monarchy and hold no republican predilections; that a military expedition is to end Spanish troubles in Morocco during next month ?a story similar to many others...
...Passed by vote of 305 to 49 a bill to make legal the transfer of surplus naval vessels which might be useful to the Coast Guard in its liquor patrol work...
Whether the flappers of New York are of the sea-going variety and get in the way of the Columbia shells is not officially known but the authorities have apparently decided to take no chances. Probably contributions for a "Hudson patrol" will soon be solicited, to keep visitors at a harmless distance. But the precedent of secret crew practice thus auspiciously inaugurated may help solve a most exasperating local problem. Hitherto, urchins frequenting the banks and bridges of the Charles have displayed their native skill by dropping assorted missiles upon the straining oarsmen passing below, often with deadly effect...
...mines," to a further height of nearly six miles, a complete vertical barrage of bursting shells will "prevent any aviator coming through alive." Smoke screens of such proportions as to form veritable clouds will help to confuse the invader. Yet higher squadrons, equipped with new types of planes, will patrol the air "at altitudes which service machines have never yet attained...