and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Mr. March, like Benjamin Szold, was a clergyman, although of an indeterminate denomination ; ;

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

Henrietta could easily identify herself with Jo March, although Jo was not the eldest sister.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

For Rachel, conceded to be the prettiest of the Szold girls -- and she did make a pretty picture sitting in the grape-arbor strumming her guitar and singing in her silvery tones -- there was no particular March counterpart ; ;

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

The fifteenth name was ( Thomas ) Baldwin, admitted to Christ's 4 March 1625 under Alsop.

Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.

Mrs. Trempler was tuberculosis, Mrs. Surcliffe was Mothers' March of Dimes, Mrs. Craven was cancer, and Mrs. Gilkson did the kidney.

When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

From March 3 to May 1, 1949, the patient was maintained on dexamethasone, 3 to 6 mg. daily.

Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief and appointed Henry Wager Halleck in March 1862, after McClellan's " Harrison's Landing Letter ", in which he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort.

Johnson's tenure in the Senate came to a conclusion when Lincoln appointed him military governor of occupied Tennessee in March 1862.

The unofficial leader of the team, Thomas Jefferson, had been the appointed Financial Secretary until March 1992, when he resigned over public spending disputes to fight the election.

Chernenko died on 10 March 1985, and the Central Committee appointed Gorbachev General Secretary on 11 March.

In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first " anime ambassador.

In March 2001 the President appointed a new Prime Minister, Cándido Muatetema Rivas, and replaced several ministers perceived to be especially corrupt.

During the Revolutionary disturbances of 1848 ( March Revolution ), he appointed liberal ministers in the government, lifted censorship, and remitted a liberal electoral law.

On 11 March 1717, Telemann was appointed Kapellmeister von Haus aus at Eisenach: he fulfilled the duties of the position by regularly sending new music from Frankfurt to Eisenach.

Yvon Neptune was appointed Prime Minister on March 4, 2002, but following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, he was replaced by an interim Prime Minister, Gérard Latortue.

After not having a minister of finance for more than a month, prime minister Gyula Horn appointed Lajos Bokros as Finance Minister on 1 March 1995.

In March 1933, Reich Governor of Bavaria Franz Ritter von Epp appointed Himmler chief of the Munich Police.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

General Suharto politically outmanoeuvred President Sukarno, and was formally appointed president in March 1968.

On 13 March, Goebbels had his reward for his part in bringing the Nazis to power by being appointed Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ( Volksaufklärung und Propaganda ), with a seat in the Cabinet.

On 21 December 1865 he was chosen vice-president of the diet, and in March 1866 became president of the sub-committee appointed by the parliamentary commission to draw up the Composition ( commonly known as the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ) between Austria and Hungary, of which the central idea, that of the " Delegations ," originated with him.

On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.

In March 1893, President Grover Cleveland appointed federal judge Walter Q. Gresham as his Secretary of State, and Gresham hired Landis as his personal secretary.

Jean's eldest son, Prince Henri, was appointed " Lieutenant Représentant " ( Hereditary Grand Duke ) on 4 March 1998.

On March 5, 1829, President Jackson appointed Van Buren Secretary of State, an office which probably had been assured to him before the election, and he resigned the governorship on March 12.

On March 3, just before his term was to end, Adams, in an attempt to stymie the incoming Democratic-Republican Congress and administration, appointed 16 Federalist circuit judges and 42 Federalist justices of the peace to offices created by the Judiciary Act of 1801.

Remey was appointed president of the council in March, with Amelia Collins as vice-president, then in December 1951 Remey was appointed a Hand of the Cause.

Following the Labor Party's victory in the March 1983 election, Keating was appointed treasurer, a post he held until 1991.

In March 1971, US Naval construction battalions ( Seabees ) arrived on Diego Garcia to begin the construction of the Communications Station and an airfield.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

In March 1872 a German Imperial Naval Academy was created at Kiel for training officers, followed in May by the creation of a ' Machine Engineer Corps ', and in February 1873 a ' Medical Corps '.

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

He died on 10 March 1918 in the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, after contracting typhoid.

* March 18 – William P. Cronan, Naval Governor of Guam ( b. 1879 )

* March 22 – Templin Potts, American naval officer ; 11th Naval Governor of Guam ( b. 1855 )

* March 6 – William P. Cronan, 19th Naval Governor of Guam ( d. 1929 )

While at Purdue, Chaffee took flight training as part of the Naval ROTC program in order to prepare him for a career as a Naval Aviator, soloing on 29 March 1957 and obtained his private pilot's license on 24 May 1957.

In March 1961, Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, recommended the establishment of guerrilla and counter-guerrilla units.

On 20 March 2003 the Navy SEALs launched what is the largest single SEAL operation in history from US Naval vessels, Ras al-Qulayah Naval Base and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as part of a mixed force of US Navy SEALs, Polish GROM and British Royal Marines.

Four university fight songs commonly used by high schools are the University of Michigan's " The Victors ", The University of Illinois ' " Illinois Loyalty ", the University of Notre Dame's " Victory March ", and the United States Naval Academy's " Anchors Aweigh ".

The naval Battle of Yamen () ( also known as the Naval Battle of Mount Ya ; ) took place on 19 March 1279 and is considered to be the last stand of the Song Dynasty against the invading Mongol-controlled Yuan Dynasty.

The Naval Research Laboratory commemorated the event with a day-long meeting at NRL on March 17, 2008.

In an episode of the television series Bonanza ( Look to the Stars, broadcast March 18, 1962 ), Ben Cartwright ( Lorne Greene ) helps the 16-year-old Albert Abraham Michelson ( portrayed by 25-year-old Douglas Lambert ( 1936 – 1986 )) obtain an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, despite the opposition of the bigoted town schoolteacher ( played by William Schallert ).

During March and April 1979, the Prince was enrolled at the Royal Naval College Flight, undergoing pilot training, until he was accepted as a trainee helicopter pilot and signed on for 12 years from 11 May 1979.

* By 29 March 2005, all detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base had received hearings before Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

* 1936 Second London Naval Treaty ( 25 March )

; 1951: In early March, Truman nominates Alan T. Waterman, the chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research, to become the first Director of the fledgling agency.

A number of former German soldiers of the 216th Marine-Flak-Abeitlung ( Naval Flak Battalion ) were tried for war crimes by the Dachau International Military Tribunal, from February 6 to March 21, 1946 ( US v Kurt Goebell et al .).

Vice Admiral Robert Don Oliver CB CBE DSC DL ( 17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980 ) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

A March 1905 issue of The Technical World describes the role of the United States Naval Observatory as a source of time signals: