Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he said: "I wish that there was a Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department...
...fill the vacancy thus caused on the active list of general officers, Brigadier General Richmond P. Davis of Camp Lewis (Washington state) was made a Major General and Colonel Walter C. Short, a San Juan Hill hero, became Brigadier General Short. To superintend West Point officialdom finally decided on Major General William R. Smith, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department (Fort Shafter...
...signal for the uprising was the mutiny of 800 troops in Mexico City, which was speedily put down. More serious revolts took place in Vera Cruz, Coahuila, Morelos, spreading eventually to the state of Chihuahua, San Luis Potsi, Durango. Government troops were successful, however, in overpowering the rebels at several important points and forcing them to take refuge in the mountains...
Married. Lieutenant William V. Davis, U. S. N., winner with Arthur C. Goebel of the Dole airplane race from San Francisco to Honolulu; to Miss Margaret Carey; at Pensacola...
...flame of revolution is licking at the feet of President Calles of Mexico. Chihuahua, Coahuila, San Luis Potosi and bandit-ridden Durango are the latest states to be ignited, and the roar from the Mausers of firing squads is heard in the land. Eighteen members of the legislature of Morelos on Wednesday were taken from the chambers of their courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison...