Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reconstruction debt of $117,000,000 to the U. S. Dr. Wilem Pospisil, Director of the Savings Bank of Prague, heads the foreign negotiators. The rest of the commission consists of Karel Kucera, Karel Barbenec, Dr. Eugene Lippansky, Zikmund Konecny and the new Czech minister to the U. S., Colonel Fierlinger...
When Mitchell came before the Board in Washington last week there was little direct contact between the quiet little man sitting at the head of the table absorbing facts and the air officer militant. Only at a point when Colonel Mitchell was about to read a statement did they really touch. Chairman Morrow gave him brief advice, ending with an abrupt injunction: "The Board must, of course, assume that this special part of your testimony has been prepared by you because you believe the facts set forth therein indicate the need of certain changes in organization which in your opinion...
...Colonel Mitchell was the chief if not the star witness in the week's hearings, which were devoted to the testimony of flying officers of both Army and Navy...
Another suit is pending before the Illinois Superior Court in which Colonel Procter is seeking to recover from Colonel Sprague half of what he spent in paying up the liabilities left over after the campaign - an amount which is supposed to be several times as large as that at issue in the present v suit...
...General Wood had been nominated and elected in 1920 matters might have been a great deal different. Colonel Sprague would probably be a Republican today, and Colonel Procter, when he was home from his post at the Court of St. James's, might have dined amicably at the home of Postmaster General Sprague...