Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court upheld all sentences, except that of the elder Burns. As Chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, (1921-24) Detective Burns was once a Hero. During the court investigation he was pictured as a "villain." The Supreme decision clears him of "villiany" leaves unsullied his record as a world-famed sleuth...
...read the prize-winning plan were optimistic of its practicability. A chief skeptic cited his chief objection. Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Philadelphia, who was chosen for the Hearst Award jury for his knowledge of Constitutional law, wrote a dissenting opinion in which he said...
...have forgotten, Col. Mitchell has clamored for almost a decade for a Department of Aeronautics separate from the War and Navy Departments. His experiences during the War and immediately after persuaded him of the need. He was the first U. S. officer to fly over the German lines, was chief of the U. S. air service for the group of armies in the Argonne offensive, and shared in practically all the major A. E. F. operations. He was in more engagements than any other U. S. officer. For War and prior Army service he has a great battery of ribbons...
Lord Dawson of Penn, King George's chief physician, was enjoying a quiet luncheon in Paris in the assumption that the royal patient whom he had tended for 29 weeks was fully convalescent. Came an urgent telephone call from Windsor. Swallowing his coffee hastily Lord Dawson rushed to Le Bourget Field and hurtled through the air to England...
...folk. Some had traveled 70 miles down from London; most had trudged from nearer homes in the West Sussex country which spreads its downs and rivers below high Castle Hill. All had come to be birthday guests of Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal & Chief Butler of England, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan. Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, scion of one of England's oldest families-who was to be 21, and a man, next day. From all the corners...