Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken away each day. In the event of Foreigners wishing to employ Japanese Maid Servants, they are requested to make application to the Garrison Commander at the Japanese Club as soon as possible as there are a limited number of Nei-sans (House Girls...
...Order of the Garrison Commander of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in China...
...they captured at Christmas time seemed to be in danger of losing it. Rightist troops using the springboard of a recent advance to the Alfambra River, drove on Teruel itself from three sides, then purportedly cut the last rutted Leftist supply road, isolating 10,000 Leftist soldiers. But the garrison resisted stubbornly. This week, as men of both sides fought hand to hand on Teruel's outskirts. Rightists opened a bombardment of the city with their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists took to the air, staged one of the most exciting airplane battles...
...universities and its leading college for training teachers, which face each other across Hillsboro Ave. in Nashville, Tenn., each installed a new chief. Vanderbilt University took as its third chancellor, big, venturesome Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 46. George Peabody College for Teachers took its fifth president, scholarly Psychologist Sidney Clarence Garrison, 50. All week the two campuses shone with such a collection of academic finery as the South had not seen in decades. From rostra thundered Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General Thomas Parran, American Bar Association...
...qualified for the job. Founded nine years before as the result of a disastrous race riot in Abraham Lincoln's home town of Springfield, 111. the N. A. A. C. P. was then a smallish but idealistic organization with a masthead of big names, among them liberal Editor Oswald Garrison Villard and famed Boston Lawyer Moorfield Storey...