Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was a mature opinion, expressed last week by Major General John Archer Lejeune, famed "Biggest Leatherneck of All," Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps. He had just completed a thoroughgoing personal inspection (TIME, Jan. 16) of Marine activities throughout Nicaragua. Last week as he went aboard the cruiser Rochester, at Corinto, Nicaragua, and prepared to sail for Panama, "Leatherneck" Lejeune delivered heavy parting shots as follows: "The boys are well liked by the Nicaraguans. At every place I visited, Nicaraguans greeted me cordially. I was able to visit these places and get first hand information. I appreciate conditions...
Throughout the week a column of 400 Marines under Major Archibald Young pressed forward into the fastness of central Nicaragua and finally occupied El Chipote, a mountain 5,000 feet high on the top of which existed, recently, one more of the war bases of General Augusto Cal- deran Sandino, now the sole Nicaraguan commander in the field against...
Meanwhile the following additional major causes will operate to bring famine: i) unrestricted childbearing among the ignorant Chinese masses, who have no knowledge of birth control; 2) low agricultural yields even from fertile land, caused by traditional, inefficient methods of cultivation; 3) backward financial and industrial conditions, just now accentuated by the widespread collapse of credit due to the Civil War; 4) the constitutional lack of a spirit of resolute co-operation among Chinese (this lack being constantly made manifest by their failure to unite in effective numbers for any purpose what soever beyond the horizon of a single family...
...best sellers, both written by Captain Percival Christopher Wren, both somewhat similar in title, have been translated into cinema by the Paramount Co. The first was Beau Geste. The second, in no wise a sequel, is Beau Sabreur, which is nobody's name but a phrase applied to Major Beaujolais, the hero, because he is handy with a sword...
...probable that Major J. R. Wogan, University polo mentor, will use J. P. Mandel '29, who has been out of the game for several weeks on account of illness, in place of R. B. Burnett ocC, during the second half...