Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General Murphy announced last week, "no power on earth" was big enough to block Murphy justice, not even prayer...
...Innsbruck, in old Austria, General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command of the German Army, and Undersecretary for War General Alberto Pari-ani, Italy's chief of Army staff, conferred on "common military problems." Field Marshal Hermann Goring was in Italian Libya as the guest of Governor Air Marshal Italo Balbo. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, after a brief and none-too-cordial reception in Egypt, arrived at the Italian island of Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean, where 45,000 Italian troops were reported as having landed. On the neighboring Dodecanese Islands, strongly fortified Ital...
Home from Paris went Britain's top soldier, General Viscount Gort, who had "visited" French Chief of Staff General Maurice Gamelin; while in London French Air Minister Guy La Chambre paid his respects to British Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. Early July 1914 saw no events more ominous...
Bermuda, lying carelessly like a torn green leaf on a sunswept turquoise tile, is a warm and romantic group of islands where many a U. S. toiler escapes from traffic lights, Klaxons and carbon monoxide to bicycles and horse-drawn buggies. Bermuda is also the place where Governor Lieut. General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard's feet hurt...
Loyola, elected General of the Society after thrice declining, perfected such methods of discipline as encouraging Jesuits (with the highest motives) to inform on one another; to travel always in pairs; to drink beer with beer drinkers. He forbade Jesuits to accept ecclesiastical honors-a rule broken only when the Pope commands one to accept a Cardinal's hat as an honor to the Society itself, or appoints one to a difficult bishopric or archbishopric. Ignatius dismissed a father who dared praise him publicly and forbade those living with him to look him straight in the face...