Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he had visited the President's father, found him ill, found that the President's son John had sat up with his grandfather all night. Doctors were summoned. Major Coupal was sent from White Court. Dr. Arthur L. Chute, Professor of Genitourinary Surgery at Tufts College, was called. Colonel Coolidge was found to have an abscess of the prostrate gland and an operation was decided on at once...
...caller at the House of Commons was Colonel E. M. House, once the alter ego of President Woodrow Wilson. In the Premier's room was held a private conversation. Mr. Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Colonel House participated...
After this, King Albert muttered a fervent Dieu soit loué (God be praised) and dined Colonel House. Two days later, a vast worry removed from his mind, he opened the third Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in the Palais des Académies and received a rousing ovation from the 780 delegates...
...Colonel Maurice Moore, Protestant, reminded him that Irish Protestants had decided for no divorce. The only question was whether the Senate should pass special acts of Parliament in individual cases...
According to Premier Baldwin, Colonel Amery is to combine both offices, but will have a separate Under Secretary for the Dominions as well as a separate Under Secretary for the Colonies. For reasons of convenience and economy, the new secretariat of the Dominions will be housed in the Colonial Office. But matters which concern the Department for the Colonies will henceforth be distinct from those that concern the Dominions. In this respect, the new Cabinet office is a step in the evolution of a Commonwealth constitution...