Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neponset farm, left the University of Illinois during the War to join the Marines. At Belleau Wood he captured single-handed 27 Germans in a machine-gun nest, was later severely wounded, returned to the U. S. as a first lieutenant with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the American Navy Medal. In 1926 he jumped from law school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers. Despite the Democratic landslide in 1932, he made a good showing...
Then to scholarly Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish chairman of the Committee of Thirteen, Baron Aloisi presented Italy's demands for peace...
...Italy consents to an armistice on these terms, the League must guarantee the safety of Italian troops against Ethiopian attacks. Chairman de Madariaga withdrew looking as if he had swallowed a mouthful of alum...
Army: General Georges De Fontaine, Deputy Chief of Staff...
...starts the story from the very beginning, with the births of herself and her brothers. "But Papa had a good time before Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh land. "Then Mamma suddenly...