Word: billard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed cutter Bear, rescuing distressed whaling ships in the Arctic. In the War he commanded the converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax...
...animal excrement, black tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with...
...enforcing methods. But what now struck them as funny was an explanation of why Coast Guardsmen drink the liquor they seize in the service of their country. The explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard's commandant, had been looking down approvingly from the gallery as the Congressman praised the Admiral's service. Describing how the liquor-laden Flor del Mar had been towed into New London in a sinking condition, there to be hastily unloaded. Congressman Beedy said: "Those...
Washington. Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, declared: "The Coast Guard's job cannot be handled with soft words and amiable gestures. . . . The Coast Guard is used to carrying out its duty with vigor and determination. . . It means business. ... If a smuggler elects to defy the command to stop, he runs a serious risk of getting hurt...