Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union announced yesterday that Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong will speak in the Living Room on Thursday, December...
...Washington, Secretary of War Weeks announced that Colonel Jay J. Morrow, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, had resigned his post in order to engage in private practice as an engineer. In accordance with established policy, President Coolidge appointed as Colonel Morrow's successor Colonel M. L. Walker, the Canal Engineer of Maintenance. Ever since Major General George W. Goethals, the Canal builder, retired in 1916 as the first Governor of the Canal Zone, it has been the custom to follow each retirement by appointing to the Governorship the Engineer of Maintenance, who is an assistant to the Governor...
...leave from irksome military duties in Cairo and left that country some years later-the "uncrowned King of Arabia." For sheer romanticism, coupled with history-making events, surrounded by names which moved the whole world not so long ago, the story that Mr. Thomas has written about Arabia and Colonel Lawrence has not been surpassed during the present century...
...author of Greenmantle, Midwinter, The Three Hostages (one of the finest romances of modern times) was in Manhattan the other day for a few hours. Lieutenant Colonel John Buchan is a short, quiet-spoken, modest English author. In those characteristics, he is like Walter de la Mare and W. Somerset Maugham, our other English visitors of the moment. They arrived without blaring of trumpets-and both Buchan and Maugham departed quietly, after seeing a few things at the theatre and saying "how-do-you-do-goodbye" to a few friends...
When classes begin this morning at the University School of Business Administration Colonel L. S. Morey 2G.B., Presiden of the Business School Club, will introduce a speaker to talk for five minutes before each class urging them to subscribe to the school's new Year Book, the Business School...