Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas is full of interesting activities and almost every week brings some unusually important visitor. During the past 12 months three Presidents, a large number of cabinet members and foreign diplomats have visited the Texas. Just about sunset last Wednesday, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous Flying Colonel, came aboard. The Colonel had dinner with Admiral Wiley, Commander-in-chief of the U.S. Fleet, and after dinner attended the movies. When the Colonel appeared at the movies 'All Hands' gave him a good hand. The Colonel waved his hand but begged off when asked to make a speech...
...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...
...States supported the raids but strongly criticized their method. Governor Long thereupon accused Col. Ewing of being a protector of the underworld, which so infuriated the aristocratic Colonel that his newspaper attacked the Governor's own doings on the night of the "stripping" raids. A party had been given that evening by Alfred M. Danziger, President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. Governor Long had attended and from there was supposed to have issued orders to his raiders at the very time, it was alleged, that he was being entertained by a troup of jazzy show girls. The States...
...said Colonel Apted, head of the University Division of Scotland Yard, when informed of the proposed dance. "I hadn't heard of it. Thank you. I'll send Detachments 2, 4, and 5a over at once. We can't be too careful of the good name of our College," he whispered to the reporter...
...Colonel Lydig had been a prominent financier with extensive affiliations in Wall Street. During the World War he served in both the American and Russian forces: previously he had been a partner in the stock brokerage firm of Lounsberry and Company...