Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andrews Up. The Air Corps felt as flattered as the man last week when Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, for four years chief of G. H. Q. Air Force, was named Assistant Chief of Staff of the whole Army, in charge of Operations & Training, first flying general ever attached to the General Staff...
...Major Carl F. Greene & Captain Alfred H. Johnson for pioneering the stratosphere in pressurized planes "with utter disregard for personal safety"; on Captains George V. Holloman & Carl J. Crane for automatic instrument landings under like hazard...
...Japanese Army was furious with its Government for removing Tientsin negotiations to Tokyo, and has been trying to sabotage the parleys all along. The Army hopes for a holdout, and a breakdown of the Tokyo negotiations. "Such a development," said pudgy, suave Major General Masaharu Homma, Commander of the Tientsin Garrison, who learned to hate the British as an Oxford student, "can only be welcomed. Then we shall be freed of the Government's promise to respect British interests in Asia. The Tientsin Concession can then finally be closed...
...Major Isaac Gabaldon was a Spanish Civil Guard investigator responsible for tracking down and turning over to military tribunals many Spanish Republicans. Despite thousands of former Loyalists imprisoned and executed by the New Spain, underground resistance remains. Fortnight ago Major Gabaldon's chauffeur halted his automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...
...hours later police caught the seven murderers driving the Major's car into Madrid. One hundred more suspects were rounded up from the neighborhood of the crime. The authorities stated that they had uncovered a nest of conspirators recruited "from the most sinister Marxist underworld" who called themselves "The Clan of Class Vengeance with Blood." Major Gabaldon's name was claimed to be merely one on a coded "death list" of Franco officers...