Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Col. Arthur Wagner, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Military Intelligence, convey to Lieut. Andrew Summers Rowan the wish of President McKinley that he seek, in the jungles of Cuba, Lieut.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, insurgent Cuban leader, carry to him a McKinley message, ascertain the size and strength of Spanish forces...
...handle particularly post office patronage. A Republican primary was ordered. Mr. Coleman. good Newton friend that he was, resigned as Minneapolis postmaster to run in that primary. He had ample reason to believe he was the Administration's choice for nomination and election. Against him ran two other Republicans: Lieut. Gov. W. I. Nolan and onetime Yale footballer Walter William Heffelfinger (TIME June...
...knew that the bushes along Potlatch Creek near Julietta make a perfect hideout. They went and looked. Sure enough, there lay four men asleep, and a fifth whom the alarms had not mentioned. The boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while Seattle George was laying plans for a bank robbery in Pierce...
...brave as ex-Monk Freyden-berg was Pierre Pigeaire, a correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...
...months later Alcock was killed alighting at Rouen. Theirs was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Lieut.-Commander Alber C. Read, U. S. Navy, and his companions stopped at the Azores on their Newfoundland-Portugal flight...