Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While Commander Barnes was at the Naval War College, Admiral W. S. Pratt was president. Recently, Admiral Pratt was given command of the battle fleet, now on the Pacific, and shortly afterwards, Commander Barnes received orders to proceed to the West Coast to take a post as navigation officer under Admiral Pratt. He left yesterday for San Pedro, California...
Peking Preparations. Twenty-three hundred foreign troops stood prepared to defend the Legation Quarter of Peking, last week, under the prospective command of the senior officer present: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Holcomb of the U. S. Marine Corps...
...travel in the U. S. is soon to emerge from the spasmodic era of the thermos bottle, the cheese sandwich and the leather jacket. Passengers' safety and comfort are, above all else, to command the attention of the newly formed Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., which announced its plans last week. It will put into operation, within six months or a year, a 48-hour train & plane service between Manhattan and Los Angeles...
Football is a game of unending upsets and contradictions, baseball games may turn on the uncertain news of a pitcher or on an irregularity in the ground, but in track the dopesters and the mathematician may stiff command attention. Track performances vary, but they usually vary within limits. And it is these limits that give purpose and excuse to the pre-meet mathematicians who about this time of year begin to flood the sporting pages with their carefully weighed prognostications...
...TRAIL OF '98 (Dolores Del Rio on the "fantom" screen), WINGS (Clara Bow and Charles Rogers), THE LAST COMMAND (Emil Jannings), THE DRUMS OF LOVE (Lionel Barrymore and Mary Philbin), SIMBA (animals clicked in Africa by Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson...