Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover, chief municipal official of the District of Columbia, heard that Senator Howell of Nebraska, discus sing Prohibition in the Senate, had said: "Enforcement in the city of Washington can be effective. The President can dismiss any official in the city of Washington...
...place of Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin, retired chief of Army Engineers, the President appointed Brig. Genera! Lytle Brown...
Last week there happened a new chief of Warrior-Engineers. President Hoover picked him-Brigadier-General Lytle Brown, graduate of Vanderbilt University. West Point and the General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth...
...served at Santiago during the Spanish War, in Mexico during Pershing's Punitive Expedition, in Washington as Chief of the War Plans Division of the General Staff during the greatest war of all. In peace, he served as instructor at West Point, as engineer of waterways at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, as the builder of Wilson Dam in Alabama. Recently he has commanded Fort Davis in the Canal Zone...
...Fradd's contrivance which is as yet without a name, was demonstrated this summer by J. L. Knox, '98, Harvard's chief football scout, at the summer school for coaches...