Word: mander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made Suiter's fort his base, marched the length of California, put an end to Mexican domination, was made provisional governor and com-mander-in-chief of California. He paused only long enough to name San Francisco harbor the Golden Gate. Meanwhile, the U. S. had declared war on Mexico and a General Kearney arrived in California to take charge. Kearney and Frémont quarreled so violently that a lieutenant named William Tecumseh...
Died. Douglas Haig, 66, first Earl Haig, 20th Laird of Bemerside, Com- mander-in-chief of the British armies in the War; in London; of heart failure...
Naval bigwigs congratulated Com-mander Charles E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles exultantly. The test proving that floating filling stations are feasible, widened immeasurable the range of dirigible utility. Commercial dirigible interests eagerly proclaimed that transoceanic airship travel was a more immediate probability now that dirigibles may nose safely down to the vast smooth expanse of landing deck superimposed on aircraft mother ships. The flying deck of the Saratoga is 880 ft. long; the Los Angeles...
Kissel 1495 -mander...
Divorced. By Mrs. Alice Meyer Rodgers, daughter of the late George Von Lengerke Meyer, Postmaster general under President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy under President Taft; Com-mander Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, U. S. N.; in Paris...