Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is not the slightest doubt that the smuggling of liquor on the northern Atlantic seaboard has been tremendously curtailed since last spring," Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard who is to address a Union audience on Thursday, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...
...When the Rear Admiral was shown press dispatches from New York announcing the arrival of 14 vessels off Rum Row, he said that he had heard of the renewed activities of the smugglers who are anchoring at a safe distance from New York, Boston, and the ports in the south in anticipation of a brisk holiday trade...
...interview Rear Admiral Billard disposed shortly of the constitutional and moral sides of the prohibition question, and then devoted his time to recounting briefly the history of the United States Coast Guard...
...England was worried about the attitude of China, which seemed to favor Germany. One day there came to my desk a mass of material taken from German prisoners and dead soldiers. In it were two pictures, one showing a train taking dead horses to the rear so that fat and other things needed for fertilizer and munitions might be obtained from them; and the other showing a train taking dead Germans to the rear for burial. On the picture showing the horses was the word 'Cadaver...
...Rear Admiral Billard has been in close touch with the actual conditions along the seaboard, and has himself witnessed the fights between bootleggers and hijackers, and machine-gun encounters between bootleggers and hijackers on one side and the Coast Guard on the other...