Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well appointed limousines. All comers without regard to race, religion or record in the social register were lined up in a big queue. Shortly before 10 o'clock about 100 were admitted to the building, but the rest never got any further. An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were...
...Challenges. Colonel Moreland, counsel for the Government, asked the members of the Court, one by one, whether they had expressed opinions about the guilt of Colonel Mitchell, whether they would be promoted if Colonel Mitchell should be dismissed from the service, etc. Each of the judges answered "No" to every question. It was then the turn of the counsel for the defense, Congressman Frank R. Reid of Illinois. Said...
Jurisdiction. With the charges in the record Congressman-Lawyer Reid began a fight to throw them out, claiming that the Court lacked jurisdiction. He asserted: 1) that the charges had not been prepared by Colonel Mitchell's immediate superior (it was brought out that President Coolidge was technically responsible for them); 2) that according to the President in a recent speech to midshipmen at Annapolis, officers are allowed the fullest latitude of speech; 3) that Colonel Mitchell's statements were within his constitutional right of free speech. Said Mr. Reid...
...charged, alleged or contended that the statements of the defendant are false, slanderous, libelous, blasphemous, obscene, immoral or any of the other things. The statements are not aimed against any individual. This table before the Court, or this chair, certainly could not be slandered. Any one who read Colonel Mitchell's statement would recognize that it is a fine play of words that really mean nothing...
...this Colonel Moreland, counsel of the prosecution, answered...