Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather was inclement and disagreeable. But late in the afternoon the President and Colonel Harvey went for a walk. They were caught in a sudden drenching shower, and the summer season ended suddenly and effectually for Mr. Coolidge's straw hat. Sodden and wilted it drooped disconsolately on the way home...
...Yellowstone. They found it stocked with shifty-eyed witnesses intent on the scalp of National Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
...Then the Colonel was called to the stand. Fighting mad, he spoke softly: "I have been on trial, all morning with convicted bootleggers, a quack doctor, a disgruntled ex-road foreman, an ex-ranger with a bad record, and other men with personal grievances testifying against me through the convenient method of leading questions from a man who assembled this group of malcontents. I appreciate the opportunity to make a statement in behalf of the administration of the park...
...summing up, the Colonel enumerated the extensive park facilities for tenting and bedding about 250,000 people per year. Then he disposed, with conclusive clarity, of the charges against...
...Thomas Cochran ranch, for example, had originally been owned by a bear-hunter, Joseph (Frenchy) Duret, who poached on park animals. In 1922, a grizzly killed him. That summer Mr. Cochran, at the suggestion of the Colonel bought the ranch at a high price, in order to deliver from the hands of unsavory characters, to preserve for the happiness of wild life. Mr. Cochran (although reserving a little) turned over the control to the National Park Service, which has the use of the ranch today. Always Mr. Cochran has given far more than he has received...