Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family assemblage gathered at the White House for inauguration: John Coolidge, son (fresh-singing lad on a tour with the Amherst Glee Club), Colonel John Coolidge, father (bringing the family Bible on which Mr. Coolidge first took oath, in order that he might use it again), Mrs. A. I. Goodhue, mother-in-law (on her first visit to the White House). President Olds of Amherst and Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns were also invited for the occasion. Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, found it necessary to decline...
...were Cyrus, William and Leander. Cyrus was father of Cyrus II as well as Harold F. (who married Edith Rockefeller and, later, Ganna Walska and is the father of Harold II and Mathilde Oser). William had a son Robert S. who was the father of the Senator and of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. Leander was the father of L. Hamilton McCormick, of Robert H. and Anita and grandfather of Alister whose one time bride-to-be, Mary Landon Baker, brought him undesired fame. Senator McCormick's mother was Katharine Medill, daughter of Joseph Medill, founder of The Chicago Tribune...
...Died. Colonel Robert C. Clowry, 87, onetime (1902-10) President and General Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan, in his stateroom in a train just arrived from Florida...
...stationed at Fort Independence where he wrote the class poem which he delivered at class day on a leave of absence. In the army Justice Holmes had a brilliant four years' career. He enlisted as a private and on his discharge in 1864 held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel...
...colleges in the Intercollegiate Association and their representatives are as follows: G. M. Carnochan, Harvard; Major V. A. Arnold, Yale; Alvin Devereux, Princeton; Major Harding Polk. Virginia Military Institute; Lient. Col. Frank H. Hyatt. Pennsrivania Military College; Colonel Frank B. Edwards, Norwich University; Major A. W. Helderness. West Point; and Major R. E. Anderson. Cornell. The officers of the new organization are Alvin Devereux. President; G. M. Carnochan, Secretary-preasunder; F. S. o'Reilly, Assistant Secreisis Tressurer...