Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with him through a certain scene in Richmond, later-a great mob of sweating, smoking, spitting men; a jury of eminent Virginians; untidy, courageous John Marshall in the Chair; and Burr, the little Colonel-powdered hair, black coat, pallid visage-on trial for his life. Soon after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black...
...Alien Property Custodian. Last fall, he managed the Republican Campaign in the East with such success that Charles D. Hilles, a Republican super-chieftain, advised the President (TIME, Apr. 13) to give him the high responsibility of managing the confiscated property of onetime enemies of the U. S., succeeding Colonel Thomas Miller...
Thomas Crimming '00 of New York City, president of the Thomas Crimmons Construction Company. In 1916 he served with the New York National Guard on the Mexican Border and served during the World War as a Colonel in the One Hundred and Second Engineers and later was in Rome with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. he was one of the organizers and a former president of the Harvard Engineering Society. he is a director of the Employers Mutual Insurance Company, a trustee of the United States Savings Bank, a director of the Reconstruction Hospital, secretary of the Contractors Protective...
Ralph Lowell '12 of Bedham, a trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings, and a member of the Suffolk Savings Bank for Sailors. He is a trustee of Noble and Greenough School and of the Dedham Public Library. He served during the war as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Infantry, and is treasurer of his College class...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Army selected as his chief military aid (succeeding Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, resigned) Engineer Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, holder of the D. S. M. and the French Croix de Guerre with Palms, a Commander of the Legion of Honor, military attache at Peking since...