Word: villa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Japanese number by S. Muromats 2G.B., Hawaiian music by Miss Alice Wong of Boston University, piano selections by J. M. Sanroma of the New England Conservatory of Music, a Spanish dance by S. C. Montaegudo, a chalk talk, a Chinese Sword Dance, a Mexican serenade by S. S. Villa 3M., and Chinese musical numbers by George Wan 1G., interspersed with numbers by an international orchestra...
...against the hostile Moros in Mindanao. He was present at the assault and capture of the famous Moro stronghold at Bud Dajo. On September 2, 1908, he was married to Miss Imogene Hoyle, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel (now Brigadier-General) Eli D. Hoyle. He served in Mexico with the Villa Punitive Expedition from March, 1916, to February, 1917, and was selected by General Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. Soon after his return from Mexico Colonel Shannon was detailed as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University and was on duty here in the spring...
...about as much active service as any officer in the Army. He has served in the Philippines, and was in Mexico with the first troops and out with the last. As captain in the 11th Cavalry he formed part of Pershing's expeditionary force which went into Mexico after Villa. He was also in the engagement at Ojos Azules (Blue Springs), where the hottest fighting of the expedition took place...
...hand with preparedness, and this is the best way to win the friendship of Mexico. All our quarrels are at bottom the result of mutual misunderstandings. It was thought in Mexico that when Mr. Wilson moved to Shadow Lawn this summer he was fleeing before the attacks of Villa! We can begin to remove these misconceptions by offering scholarships to encourage Mexicans to complete their education in this country. It is through the efforts of her educated citizens that Mexico must re-establish here-self, and not through foreign conquest or internal warfare...
...approve his discontinuance of pursuit of Pancho Villa...