Word: gibler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important part of Mary's rehabilitation program was to hush up and tone down this history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...
Because they have preserved a rather large body of old Maya tradition and rites, the Lacandons are of continuing interest to professional ethnologists, as well as to a continuing stream of travelers. ... In 1940, Corporal Gordon Gibler and I lived awhile with them to investigate some murders perpetrated on the group of half-breeds who seasonally enter their area to collect chicle, from which chewing gum is manufactured...
Last year General Almazan asked Reporter Frank Gibler, who had spent some 20 years shuttling between Mexico and the U. S., to be Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from...