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January 8, 1928

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PLANE BRINGS OUT WOUNDED MARINES UNDER ENEMY FIRE; Flier in Nicaragua Gets Nine From Quilali to Hospital at Managua. REBELS SHOOT FROM HILLS Separate Trip for Each Seriously Wounded Man Is Necessary in Emergency Transfer. NEW FORCES REACH CORINTO Admiral Sellers Arrives With Cruisers--Gulick Goes There When Strike Threatens Operations. All Expected to Recover. Gulick Eases Strike at Corinto. PLANE BRINGS OUT WOUNDED MARINES Lejeune May Go to Quilali.

By Harold N. Denny, Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. Copyright. 1928, By the New York Times Company. By Tropical Radio

Wounded marines removed from Quilali by airplane piloted by Lt C F Schilt, under enemy fire; Lejeune may go to Quilali; press comment

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Slade Gorton

1928Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington (died 2020)[†]

Thomas Slade Gorton III was an American lawyer and politician from Washington. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1981 to 1987, and again from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the state's U.S. Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice, first in 1986 by Brock Adams and again in 2000 by Maria Cantwell following a recount, becoming the last Republican senator to date for each seat.