Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report has yet to be approved by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur before it becomes final. Some ardent supporters of Colonel Mitchell called it a "whitewashing." Mrs. Lansdowne, widow of the commander of the Shenandoah, read the findings of the Court and then is alleged to have told a reporter...
Planetary Collisions. Colonel John Millis, retired Army engineer, expounded a new theory of planetary formation, including the proposition that collisions of large heavenly bodies shatter off fragments (such as Earth), which thereafter whirl around their coalesced parents as satellites...
...Colonel Wedgewood next gave his opinions on the League of Nations, and his party's stand on the subject. He also commented on the widely discussed controversies of the entrance of the United States and Russia into the League...
...Colonel Wedgewood now turned briefly to American politics. Like most visiting Englishmen, he refused to commit himself definitely concerning this touchy subject...
...Colonel Wedgewood is spending ten days in Boston, and spoke yesterday at a gathering of single tax men. He will go from here to New York, and will then proceed west, stopping in Detroit and Chicago. "After my trip west," he concluded, I intend to return to my own country immediately, feeling that I have done my the towards teaching the American people their own business...