Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Winship could bear delay with equanimity, Major General Robert Lee Howze, president of the Court could not. He is a disciplinarian of the first water. Way back in '91 he got the Congressional Medal of Honor for licking a crowd of Sioux in South Dakota. This week he proceeded to rake the counsel over the coals. The Trial Judge Advocates explained that they had not known until the day before what witnesses the defense wished to call...
...will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west and northwest. Cables announced that the U. S. "Sherifian Escadrille," which has been fighting the Riffians to the annoyance of Secretary Kellogg (TIME, Sept. 28, THE CABINET), has been "disbanded" and the airmen are returning to Paris. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kerwood of the Escadrille declared not long ago (TIME, Oct. 19) that he and his comrades will reassemble in Morocco as soon as rains slacken enough to permit effective flying...
Last week the trial of a German officer, one Colonel Mersin, was about to be concluded. He had been convicted as a murderer, and the presiding officer of the court martial was rising to pronounce sentence of death. Suddenly instructions were received from the Ministry of Justice to quash the proceedings. It was announced that in view of the Locarno treaties, Belgium would cease to prosecute War-guilty Germans...
...Thus Colonel Mersin escaped sentence of death by the splitting: of a second. He did not greatly care. Safe in Germany, like the rest of the accused, he had taken only passing interest in these wholly academic proceedings...
...Colonel H. Anthony Dyer of Providence roused the congress to a high pitch of religious fervor by speaking of the French custom of reserving the sacrament on the altar and indicating its presence with a red light. Said he: "No matter how beautiful is the building, no matter how eloquent the words of the preacher, a church cannot give us the feeling of reverence without the presence of the red light...