Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past week in the court martial of Colonel William Mitchell (TIME, Nov 9 et seq.) was spent in taking the prosecution's rebuttal testimony. Several naval officers were called as witnesses to answer the testimony of Colonel Mitchell's witnesses who had supported the charges for the making of which the Colonel is on trial...
City managers are not so numerous as politicians. But Cincinnati, having decided that she prefers one of the former rather than one of the latter for her lord and master, last week announced her choice: Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill of the Engineering Corps of the Army. She will bring him a dower of $25,000 a year...
...Colonel Sherrill is a North Carolinian. In 1901 he was graduated from West Point, second in a class of 142. As an Engineer officer he served in the Philippines, at Mobile on the Rivers and Harbors Commission, at New Orleans during the severe floods of 1912 and 1913, and on the Panama Canal. He went overseas with the A. E. F. and became Chief of Staff of the 77th Division. In 1921 he was made Director of Public Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia, a post which carried with it the duties of Chief Military Aide...
...Economy has played a large part in Colonel Sherrill's efficiency scheme; he has learned how to squeeze the eagle until it can be heard squealing down at the Treasury...
...dinner tendered to members of the "Sheriffian Escadrille"*by the American Club in Paris, Colonel Charles Sweeney, Commander of the Escadrille, commented upon the activities of his airmen. "Flying in the Riff is hard, distasteful work and not adventure. . . . When the war started we knew . . . that Morocco was on top of an abscess ... a revolt of brown subject races against European civilization. ... So we went...