Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further recognizing the new importance of Thailand's armed forces, Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway conferred Legion of Merit medals on General Srisdi and his chief of staff, Lieut. General Jira Vichitsonggram. Then the Thailanders enplaned for Bangkok to build new, stronger dikes against the Red tide...
...moment came on the day General Ridgway arrived to take over SHAPE from General Eisenhower in May 1952. The Reds were out in full force, crying: "Ridgway, go home!" Baylot met them with 20,000 cops. His men even arrested tubby Top Communist Jacques Duclos. After that day, the Reds never regained control of Paris' streets. In last year's Bastille Day parade they tried, lost seven militants killed in the rioting, and failed...
...General de Gaulle dramatically appeared, as he had promised he would, at Paris' Arc de Triomphe to pay homage "alone" to France's Unknown Soldier. It was two days after the fall of Dienbienphu, and the worried police made the biggest show of strength since the anti-Ridgway riots in 1952. More than 10,000 steel-helmeted police and armed guards assembled, truckloads of mobile guards blocked every sidestreet, and police aircraft hovered overhead. A full hour before De Gaulle's appearance, a crowd of 15,000 gathered behind the police barriers. When De Gaulle...
Soon after the Revolutionary War, the town council received an application for damages from John Ridgway, because "of the accident he sustained in passing the bridge, by his horse slumping through." Aware that horses never slump through sturdy bridges, a committee of private citizens decided to incorporate to build a new toll bridge across the Charles. When the bridge was completed in 1793, the Boston newspapers, with their customary conservatism, reported that "the elegance of the workmanship, and the magnitude of the undertaking, are perhaps unequalled in the history of human enterprises...
...embarkation for overseas duty. 1,500 members of the 45th Infantry Division, all American Indians, staged a war dance. Last week, when the 45th returned to the U.S. from its latest overseas tour, 1,000 men marched from Manhattan's Bowling Green to City Hall, where General Matthew Ridgway, Mayor Robert Wagner, and a host of brass were waiting to welcome them home. Along Broadway the traditional ticker tape slithered down on the marching men-the first to return from Korea as a unit-and a crowd of 250,000 New Yorkers cheered them on their way. After...