Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freeman's narrative of Jackson's first Valley Campaign is perhaps the best thing in Lee's Lieutenants. Among his fresh details is the fact that Jackson dug out an expert cartographer and had him make good maps of the whole Blue Ridge region. He also drew up tables that would show him at a glance the distance between any two points in his territory. Other officers, unaware of Deacon Jackson's attentive preparations, sometimes agreed with Cavalryman "Dick" Ewell that he was crazy...
Over 200 people, including 65 Harvard undergraduates, 120 Radcliffe girls, and several member of the University Faculty and staff attended the first meeting of the second session of the Harvard Air Raid Precautions school. The meeting included general discussion of ARP communications and organization in the Greater Boston Region, especially in the City of Cambridge and on the University grounds...
...first speaker of the evening was C. Guy Watts, recipient of a D.S.C. for his deeds in Word War I, who spoke on the setup of communications in Region five of which he is chief ARP officer. Mr. Watts is the only man in the region head-quarters who had experience in the last...
Next speaker was John Crowley, Cambridge Deputy Chief Warden, who described the intricacies of the local report center, and explained the various ways in which this center is connected with the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety organization, in Boston, an the region headquarters...
Speakers at tonight's opening meeting will be Guy Watts, Chief A.R.P. officer of region five, which embraces greater Boston, John D. Crowley, Deputy Chief Warden of Cambridge and expert in communications, and Aldrich Durant, Chief Warden of Harvard University...