Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief among the "New Patriots...
...sued. Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, as chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, was made the defendant. The Government claimed the invention because it had been perfected while the inventor was on active duty, because he had been educated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Government expense. Justice Stafford held that the Sibley case had closed to question the right of service men to take out patents. Hoping perhaps to overthrow the Sibley precedent as well as escape paying the Fiske damages, the Government prepared to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court...
Thus did Col. Arthur Wagner, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Military Intelligence, convey to Lieut. Andrew Summers Rowan the wish of President McKinley that he seek, in the jungles of Cuba, Lieut.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, insurgent Cuban leader, carry to him a McKinley message, ascertain the size and strength of Spanish forces...
Gastonia, N. C. Some 1,000 textile workers continued to hold out for union recognition, following riots and charges of murder for the killing of a police chief (TIME, June...
...spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...