Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article was written for the Crimson by Leo Shubow 1L, former Yeoman on the oceanographic service of the International Ice Patrol...
Blowing up gigantic icebergs, warning ships of their presence and position on the treacherous Grand Banks, and keeping track of the exact position of any where from 50 to 100 of these engines of destruction is the duty of the International Observation and Ice Patrol Service...
Since the War he has commanded the New York, been Governor of the Virgin Islands, Director of Naval Intelligence at Washington. Two years ago he was appointed again to an active service post as Commander of the Yangtze Patrol Force...
Rear Admiral Hough, 56, reported the incident to his superior, Vice Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He recalled, too, that while commander of the Yangtze patrol, the post he still occupies, he narrowly escaped death while playing golf on the Hankow course when Chinese soldiers fired upon him and his party. What the Admiral said on that occasion is not recorded...
...served almost eight months of a two-year term as prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio. Last week, reporting to the Ohio Attorney General, he said: "The difficulty of investigation is perhaps the most serious in our entire system of criminal justice. There are not enough police properly to patrol the county and there are very few communities in the country where the training of police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses refuse to tell what they know, very often from a fear of the consequences at the hands either of the defendant...