Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
...order promoting Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. Marine Corps, to the rank of Major-General. The President's memories were of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when he, then a young mining engineer, had discussed the defense of Tientsin with Smedley Darlington Butler, then an enthusiastic Second Lieutenant of Marines just turned 19. President Hoover signed the order...
...quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young Plan. Germany's stiff-collared Hjalmar Schacht declared with equal insistence that he had no authority to do so. Chairman Owen D. Young saved...
...Roger Quincy Williams, left-handed pilot, and Lewis Yancey, left- handed navigator, after a six-week wait and two accidents to their first plane, the Green Flash, flew a second Bellanca, one- Whirlwind-motored Pathfinder, unerringly from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain, where gas shortage had forced the Old Orchard-Paris Yellow Bird down three weeks prior (TIME, June 24). Gas shortage also arrested the Pathfinder's flight. Bound for Rome, she rose again and got there without another stop...
Duel. For Prima Donna Sari Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured...