Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chalons-sur-Marne, Professor Gosset improvised the first operating-room-ambulance, inaugurated the technique of sewing up soldiers on the spot almost as soon as they are blown open. In 1928 he was elected President of the French Congress of Surgeons. For 17 years he has refused, with a Frenchman's indomitable stubbornness, to be transferred from his beloved old hospital and lecture hall to more ornate quarters and a better paying professorship...
...Congress at Christmas recess...
...American Congress of Workingmen at Havana...
Promoted. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, polar explorer; to the rank of Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired; by act of Congress...
...against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went the U. S. S. Cumberland; the Congress went up in flames. Sailor Buchanan, wounded in the thigh, was promoted to Admiral. Soon after the Virginia's drawn battle with the Monitor, Norfolk was abandoned, the Virginia scuttled...