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...would amount to a repeal of the Tariff Law." He insisted that the patrolmen had been ordered to use their guns only for self-defense or to prevent the commission of a felony, but later announced that he would forbid the carrying of shotguns and rifles by the border patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Line of Duty | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, the hard-bitten U. S. Marine who lately returned from commanding a China patrol force, last week declared to the Wayne, Pa., Chamber of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Feng Steps Out | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Hotels and office buildings have obliterated most of the original posts, but the annual boundary patrol still marches, the choir boys are vigorously bumped against office desks, lamp posts-whatever objects stand on the traditional spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ascension Bumps | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...additional men arrived, some 20 rebels appeared on the sky line of the railroad fill and the patrol opened fire. The rebels were routed, but Private First Class (no buck private as you put it) John Phinnizee was shot through the chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Troop E, 10th Cavalry, under First Lieutenant Drury, coming to the rescue of the patrol, was fired on by cavalry of Yucopicio then going into position to attack Naco under Topete. When the error was discovered after a pack horse had been shot, the Mexican officers very kindly offered hot coffee. International relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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