Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week onetime Lloyd liners Kronprinzessin Cecilie (Mount Vernon) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Monticello), inactive ever since they were seized by the U. S. and used for troop ships during the War, were offered for sale by the U. S. Shipping Board as scrap. Famed was the escape from British destroyers of the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, freighted with $10,000,000 gold, into the neutral waters of Bar Harbor, Maine...
...Steuer soon belied his original observation concerning the difficulty of proving that "there is a Mrs. Erlanger." In order to show that his client was married by common law he had to show that Mr. Erlanger had acknowledged her as his wife. To do this he called in a troop of witnesses who had known her as Mrs. Erlanger. First were a housekeeper, an old friend, two assistants in a photographer's studio. Then came a lawyer who said Erlanger had feared that his brother would "make trouble"; the lawyer's wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing...
Early results were good. Caviglioli was shot. Hundreds of bandit suspects or their relatives were arrested. Up in the mountains armed patrols raided three heavily armed bandit lairs?but found no bandits in them. Troop movements were hindered a good deal by the fact that the expeditionary force of 800 gendarmes was accompanied by an additional force of about 200 French, British, U. S., Italian and Spanish reporters who tipped off the natives unwittingly, drank up all the beer and asked so many questions that General Fournier found it impossible to concentrate. The air of Ajaccio, the air that...
...small, dark, alert Fred Kuh (pronounced "coo") who had dashed 6,000 mi. overland from Berlin where he is Bureau manager for United Press. In crossing the entire breadth of Russia, passing the Soviet frontier, coming on to Tsitsihar, experienced Correspondent Kuh saw no evidence of Red Army troop movements or war preparation of any kind by the Soviet Union...
...September 2, the troop was the rear guard for the retreat from Winchester to Harper's Ferry. When General Miles surrendered there, the cavalry made a daring escape, capturing an ammunition train of 85 wagons...