Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spirit. "I begin this contest wholly philosophically and in entire good humor; but during its progress I shall not hesitate, as in every other political contest in which I have engaged, to express myself concerning policies with such force and emphasis as I can command...
Major Frederick L. Martin, 41, native of Indiana, is in command. A graduate in mechanical engineering, with an overseas record in aviation, he supplise the expedition with steadiness. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, 31, of Santa Barbara, headed all the contestants in the endurance race from New York to San Francisco to New York in 1919, and made a duration flight last year of 36 hours, refueling in the air. He is good for a long pull...
Later the armored cruiser Rochester, flagship of the U. S. special service squadron in Central and South American waters, was sent to the port of Amapala, Honduras, under command of Rear Admiral Dayton. The measure was taken as a precautionary measure against harm to American life or destruction of American property...
...Federal forces engaged the enemy at Irolo without important effect. General Obregon took over supreme command of the Army and bent all his energies in pushing forward to Vera Cruz. The first big clash occurred at San Marcos and resulted in a defeat for the rebels, who were forced to retire. This split the two rebel armies into two corps of about 6,000 men each; the San Marcos corps retiring to Orizaba, while the other of about the same strength held Puebla, the second largest town in possession of the rebels...
...House of Zedlitz was aroused. Baron Eberhard von Zedlitz and Neukirch, second in command of the family, took it upon himself to denounce the Count as "ein Verräter an dem Kaiser (a traitor to the Kaiser), and his book to be an unworthy attack by an officer of the old imperial defense forces of the former War Lord." The Baron then struck him off the family roll and organizations connected with the old German Army followed suit by expelling him from their societies...