Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Lindbergh, wishing to avoid the glare of pitiless publicity, seems to have made a mistake. Neither his office, nor the position of his noted father-in-law, nor the decent requests of the less gossipy papers have modulated the stream of photographers and reporters who harass the Morrow home. Not even the air gives him sufficient freedom to run the blockade of prying printers with success...
When, last week, Knox Hat Co., Inc., announced an offering* of no par, non-voting common at $140 a share, a few U. S. hat wearers remembered the time (1917) when Knox shares were selling at $6. That was during a reorganization period following the retirement (1913) of Colonel Edward M. Knox, son of Founder Charles Knox, and before the arrival of the present management, which, under the leadership of President F. H. Montgomery, showed net earnings in 1928 of $859,997, or $10.10 a share on common stock. Acquiring Dunlap & Co. (1919), Long's Hat Stores Corp...
Meanwhile Hatter Knox was growing old, and gray were the hairs under the Knox hat worn on the Knox head. So gradually Hatter Knox's son, Colonel Edward Knox, took control of the business...
When Charles Knox died (1895) the business had already been for some years under the direction of Colonel Knox* whose chief problem was competition with the rapidly rising Dunlap hat. Whether because Robert Dunlap, liberal, kindly, used frequently to suspend production in Dunlap shops while he bought beer for the men and ice cream for the women, or because of a secret process by which Hatter Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could...
...Although the Colonel was an honorary title, conferred by Congress, Colonel Knox was no armchair military man. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded at Gettysburg...