Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Samuel Hof, President of the Business School Club, will introduce Mr. Williams this evening. Opportunity will be given at the close of the lecture to question Mr. Williams, who will answer queries from the platform...
...fuss. Any attempt to render deliberate justice in a controversial case usually brings on a big fuss. In the court martial of Colonel William Mitchell (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.) there is little doubt that the nine generals who are the august judges, were, if given any instructions at all by the War Department, told to conduct the trial in such a manner that Colonel Mitchell could have no complaint of unfairness...
Last week began the lengthy business of taking testimony. As a prelude Congressman Frank R. Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, opened with a modest address of 22,000 words telling what he proposed to prove for his client to back up the sweeping statements for which Colonel Mitchell is being tried. He said he would prove that the lost Shenandoah was not a first rate dirigible and not in the best of condition, that a Navy officer had tried to persuade Mrs. Lansdowne not to testify that her husband had protested against the Shenandoah's fatal trip, that several...
Captain Robert Oldys was another witness. He told of the death of his commanding officer, Major Harley Wheeler, in a crash at Hawaii. Major Wheeler told him a few minutes before his fatal flight that he had been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
There is still a Tribune in Chicago. Last week it published an announcement: "Mr. Patterson will establish his headquarters in New York to administer the affairs of the News and Liberty. Colonel McCormick will stay in Chicago and manage the Tribune and the paper mills." Where two men had stood together to manage one paper, they must stand apart to manage three. And the deduction? "The bulldog's tail," said reasoners, "is making a million wags...