Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day General Butler reported to Major General Lejeune in Washington, formally withdrew his resignation from the Marine Corps and was assigned to command the marine base at San Diego...
From Madrid, Premier Primo de Rivera sent out a letter to the President of the Press Association. He expressed the wish that newspaper publishers combine in the publication of a collective newspaper in every town on Sunday. A dictator's command is best expressed as a wish...
...airplane Captain George Hubert Wilkins will undertake next spring a direct passage from Point Barrow in Alaska over the Ice Pole to Spitzbergen?slightly less than 1,900 miles of Arctic. Vilhj�lmur Stefansson, veteran North rider, on whose last trip Captain Wilkins served as second in command, will devote himself to the details of preparation...
...outer portals of l'Elysee swung open, revealing the official residence of M. le President Dou-mergue. With all the cordiality at his command, M. Doumergue made the little children (his guests) wel- come...
...Knox. Knox was obstinate. So Burr addressed the men and led them out of the closing trap. At 21, Burr was made Lieutenant Colonel and protested to Washington that others were placed over him. He gained a reputation as a disciplinarian and a leader. He was several times given command of troublesome troops. He established the first organized military intelligence for the Continental army...