Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Wilbur then announced: "Major Gen. Lejeune, Commandant of the Marine Corps, will make an inspection of the Marines stationed in Nicaragua.... He will sail...
Critic Silenced. Purple with cold, humble in spirit, Major Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, one of the most vociferous orators in the U. S. House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building...
President Coolidge to the Caribbean. Lindbergh around its Southern end in great swoops. On the island of Cuba a Conference of all the Americas. These events, close crowding, make the shimmering Caribbean and her major islands news, this week...
There are two schools of thought and proposed action. One, headed by the U. S., seeks to exclude major political issues, tries to keep the Conference and its permanent agency* in a rut of cumulative, bureaucratic progress: pamphlets . . . scholarships . . lectures infinitudes of supplemental Pan-American societies . . . emotion . . . soft soap...
...took the plane often out of sight of land; flying 12 hours from field to field. Miss Nichols has made many flights; en route to Miami she piloted the plane for a five hour stretch. With her were Harry Rogers, President of the Rogers Air Line of Miami ; and Major M. K. Lee, business and sportsman. Said Miss Nichols: "Major Lee demonstrated his faith in my flying ability by falling asleep and remaining that way for practically the whole time I was in charge of the controls...