Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel, Air Service...
...News from Plymouth, Vt., apprised the world that a telephone had been placed in Colonel Coolidge's house so that he, now so weak and bedridden, might converse with his son at the White House...
...President reviewed the conviction of Colonel William Mitchell for violating the 96th Article of War and mitigated the sentence (see ARMY & NAVY...
...case of William Mitchell, Colonel of U. S. aviation, found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," went to the President's desk for review. The paragraph that the presidential eyes came especially to rest upon was the one that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They...
While a student at the University, Colonel MacNider was and editor of the CRIMSON, and used to go after his news on a bicycle, which was one of the requirements of his competition. He entered the banking business after graduation, and later fought in the Mexican and World Wars. After the last war he was elected National Commander of the American Legion. He took the post of Assistant Secretary of War when Secretary Weeks resigned and Mr. Davis moved up to the Cabinet