Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elevation of Major Peyton Gordon, U. S. Attorney who has twice convicted Sinclair-for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering in contempt of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to the bench of the latter Court, by President Coolidge...
...considered so authentic that it formed the nub of a report to the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee cabled by Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, commanding the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. At the same time a prominent Marine field commander in Nicaragua, Major Archibald Young, was quoted as saying that the greatest difficulty encountered by his men was from wood ticks & fleas...
Last week the validity of the Rear Admiral's official report and the Major's off-hand statement was rudely challenged when the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino killed five more U. S. Marines, thus bringing the total of Marine deaths for the past year...
...Major Gorden Reel, former New York State Highway Commissioner and an officer in the Air Service Reserve, last week told the New York Exchange Club a tale of the air. Told...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...