Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major abuse detected by Commissioner McManamy was the free travel of officials to resorts. The Atlantic Coast Line goes to Florida. Its private cars journeyed 96,507 free miles on other lines while it had to haul without charge the private cars of other companies a total of 456,683 miles over its own tracks. The Maine Central runs to Bar Harbor. While its private cars moved 2,028 miles over other lines, it gave private cars of other lines free rides for 41,521 miles...
...handsome, rather English in manner, he led down from a Rhode Island base two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyer divisions, aircraft equipment- theoretically a full-fledged battle fleet. His mission was to bottle up U. S. fighting ships in New York Harbor. At Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook was Major-General Andrew Hero Jr., Chief of Coast Artillery, defending New York, keeping the harbor open. For three days the battle between the Admiral and General veered back and forth. Claims on each side were large. Admiral Cole issued this war-time communique: "Our Grand Fleet today engaged the enemy...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle was engaged in an exhibition bayonet contest at a Pitman, N. J., military camp of which he is head. His opponent, acting within the rules of combat, dropped his rifle, seized a dagger, lunged inside the Major's guard, inflicted a flesh wound. Major Biddle continued fighting until his wife intervened...
Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, "Listerine" scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin's endurance flight? see p. 47); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker...
Died. Dr. Lafayette Page, 66, of Indianapolis, Ind., famed ear, nose & throat specialist, Wartime major; in Indianapolis...