Word: chaumont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Montana, was more excited last week about taking a wife in Havana than about his seat in the Cabinet. Long a widower, he flew to Cuba where he was the guest of Ambassador Guggenheim. At her suburban villa before 30 witnesses he was married to Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, fiftyish, socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President...
Married. Thomas James Walsh, 73, Montana's senior U. S. Senator, Attorney General in the Roosevelt Cabinet; and Mina Perez Chaumont Truffin, wealthy relict of a Havana sugar broker; in Marianao, suburb of Havana, Cuba...
...Directions have been given to send to Shanghai the 31st Regiment . . . now at Manila, together with 400 Marines [later increased to 600] on the transport Chaumont leaving tomorrow. The cruiser Houston and six destroyers left Manila this morning for Shanghai...
...Sept. 1, 1917, General Pershing moved his headquarters to Chaumont, 155 mi. east of Paris, which put him directly behind the sector the A. E. F. was to take over. On Oct. 21 the ist Division entered the lines near Luneville for training. On Nov. 3 occurred the first A. E. F. trench fatalities, a corporal and two privates of the 16th Infantry trapped by a box barrage...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...