Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected that Major Daly will be transferred during the summer to the instructing staff of the Harvard R. O. T. C. in accordance with a request made to the War Department some time ago by Lieutenant Colonel Browning, commanding the corps. With the understanding that his military duties shall come first. Major Daly has agreed to devote to the football team such time as he may have available. It is expected that he can arrange for his annual leave so as to as sist in the coaching of the squad during the spring practice...
...account of the innovation of the intercollegiate championship tournament. This tournament was started by Major General Robert Lee Bullard for the benefit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps units in the various eastern colleges, and it has been sponsored thus far by the Second Corps Area. Now, however, as Colonel William N. Haskell, polo representative of the Second Corps Area, explained at the meeting at which the Intercollegiate Folo Association was formed, the tournament has outgrown the facilities which the military authorities are able to offer. After the first year of the competition, polo has proved so popular that students...
...crowds trickle towards the nations capital, greeted by an unexpected termination of the warm spell that makes it very easy to "Keep Cool With Coolidge." The Washington shops have retaliated for the program of "simplicity" and "economy" by breaking precedent to the extent of keeping open on Inauguration Day Colonel Coolidge has decided that there are enough bibles in Washington to make it unnecessary to bring one from Vermont, Governor Pinchot will ride in the procession with a sombrero from Texas, Governor Nellie Ross will be received with all due acclamation, as the first lady governor, and the President...
From Atlanta came a statement of Colonel Hollins Randolph, President of the Memorial Association. Said he: "For more than a year the greatest problem of the Stone Mountain Memorial has been the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum. . . . He loafed on the job. . . . It has been extremely difficult to get him to do any work at all on the mountain, notwithstanding the large amounts of money paid him. His main desire seems to be to get his name in the newspapers as often as possible...
...Duchess of Manchester lauded his statues and water-colors of the American Indians. He harnessed fame to his able statues of wild horses, won the gold medal in the St. Louis Exhibition of 1903, completed a statue of Lincoln (now in Newark, N. J.) of which the late Colonel Roosevelt passed the equivocal criticism: ''Why, this doesn't look like a monument at all." Always he has been active in public affairs: he helped the farmers of the Northwest when they cried for better prices, he investigated, at the request of President Wilson, inefficiencies in aircraft building...