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Word: gens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, acting Quartermaster General during the World War, a member of the War Industries Board, Major Gen. Goethals retired in 1919. He sat in a Wall Street Office and remodeled strange, stubborn places of the earth as a distinguished consulting engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Half Staff | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Secretary Wilbur then announced: "Major Gen. Lejeune, Commandant of the Marine Corps, will make an inspection of the Marines stationed in Nicaragua.... He will sail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: War | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Apathetic to mere law, the onetime slaves were glad to continue toiling for their former masters, last week, because Sierra Leone is so impoverished and undeveloped that many a free man cannot earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 200,000 Slaves | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Cabinet | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Beside the shadowy Spirit bulks the heavier black shape of the great Ford-Stout monoplane in which Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh is presently to fly back to her Detroit schoolroom after the family Christmas. Mother and son stand together for a moment, bidding farewell. Col. Lindbergh shakes hands with Gen. Alvarez who brought to him the good-byes of President Plutarco Elias Calles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Quetzal | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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