Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political acumen, prescience or coincidence that caused TIME to print on its. cover the pictures of the vice-presidential nominees of the two major parties just before they were nominated? It was easy enough, of course, to predict who the presidential nominees would be, but to pick the right men from the great numbers of vice-presidential aspirants was quite another matter. Congratulations, TIME...
Thomas Garfield Sterrett, hardboiled retired Major of the U. S. Marines, onetime orderly for President Roosevelt, alleged inventor of "the Leathernecks" as a nickname for the Marines, alleged onetime manager of "the two biggest advertising agencies in New York," sheriff of Erie County, Pa., and President of the Pennsylvania State Sheriffs' Association, said: "To hell with the District Attorney of Crawford County and Prohibition...
...officer of the Reserve Corps desiring to leave the U. S. for 30 days or more must notify the Adjutant General (Major General Lutz Wahl) giving particulars of the intended trip...
...There have been ten major epidemics of septic sore throat in the U. S. during this century; many minor ones. Boston had 1,400 cases in 1911; Baltimore 1,000 in 1912; Chicago 10,000 in 1912; Concord...
Captain Herman Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Major James Fitzmaurice, last week were honored by onetime royalty, snubbed by royalty's onetime subjects. Fresh from receptions in Bremen and Dublin, they flew to Doom, Holland, where Wilhelm II stood on the castle roof to wave them farewell with his one sound arm; thence to Cologne, Germany, where the city fathers, Kaiser-hating, failed to appoint a committee of welcome...