Word: 122nd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, the first popularly elected Governor of Puerto Rico, and the 122nd since Ponce de León, settled down last week to review the bills just passed by the island legislature. Don Luis liked most of the new bills, and the new budget in particular. It totaled $94 million and 46% of it was earmarked for health and education...
...122nd anniversary of Brazil's independence from Portugal, Getulio Vargas made his third promise that Brazilians will some day be given a chance to vote for another President...
...Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. The Tribune itself praised his war record when he came home in 1919, declared he had "won the love" of his regiment. The Chicago News's famed front line correspondent, Robert J. Casey, who was a fellow officer with Field in the 122nd, describes him as "a hell of a good soldier...
Called to service on the Mexican border, he leased a hacienda, entertained generals at parties. He went to France in 1917 as a member of General Pershing's headquarters staff. Later, he was for a while lieutenant colonel of Marshall Field's outfit, the 122nd Artillery, then colonel of the 61st Artillery. Before the end of the war he was sent back to the U.S. as commandant of Fort Sheridan, near Chicago...