Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aged 47, he is at present the youngest, most dashing U. S. Major General. He commanded the famed Rainbow (42d) Division in the War. From 1919 to 1922 he was Superintendent of West Point, whence he was graduated in 1903 at the head of his class. To the second-most-important post in the Philippines he takes a knowledge of the Islands gained there as a young officer of engineers on construction work (1903-04) and as commander of the 23d Infantry Brigade at Manila (1922-25). Since 1925 he has commanded the Third Corps Area, at Baltimore...
Birthday. At Sinaia, some 75 miles north of Bucharest, capital of Rumania, in the Royal Palace, Michael I, World's youngest king, celebrated the sixth anniversary of his birth. All year long he has been a good boy. His mother, Princess Helene, wife of the errant and onetime Crown Prince Carol, said so. And so blue-eyed "Mickey," as he is called within the court, received lots of presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne-that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else...
...four prisoners, amid hysterical excitement in the court, calmly put their hands into the hat and withdrew their ballot, stoical resignation imprinted upon their features. Twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Jauregui, youngest of the quartet, blanched-he drew the black ballot. Fiercely protesting his innocence, he called upon the court to hasten his execution by a firing squad, saying that he would not appeal...
Prince Otto, son of the late Prince Herbert Bismarck, onetime Secretary of State of Prussia, is 30 years old. At 26 he was elected a Reichstag deputy, being one of the youngest men ever to enter the German Parliament...
...pained and indignant that it is possible for anyone to spread such idiotic and calumnious tales," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, scotching a report that Princess Ileana, her youngest daughter, had eloped with a married but fascinatingly handsome naval lieutenant and, balked, had tried to commit suicide...