Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the delayed joint resolution giving a special gold medal to Colonel Lindbergh; after stormy argument, ordered a similar medal struck for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth; passed a bill awarding the Distinguished Flying Cross to the crew of the Bremen, to Commander de Pinedo of Italy and Lieutenant Costes and Lieut.-Commander Lebrix of France...
...Colonel of a regiment stationed at Tourelles had written to the War Ministry that he found it impossible, in that region, to obtain an acceptable male cook. Was there, the Colonel sought to know, any permissible alternative? He enclosed without comment the photograph and the credentials of a woman, Mme. Jacquet...
...Tuesday, April 24, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Quebec, carrying twelve bottles of anti-pneumonia serum and three white mice, and accompanied by Thomas B. Applegate, private secretary to Mr. Rockefeller. Immediately on his arrival that evening the white mice were inoculated with Floyd Bennett's sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were...
...wish to reply to the letters in your magazine on April 9 and 23 suggesting that President Coolidge take a flight with Colonel Lindbergh. The writers of those letters were lacking in dignity. TIME also showed itself lacking in dignity to print them. You have no business to use your magazine as a medium for making personal suggestions to the President of the United States. I have no doubt that Colonel Lindbergh would be a safe pilot for any man, great or small; but that is no reason why President Coolidge should have his life made more difficult with continual...
General Harbord enlisted in the United States Army in 1889, and served for a number of years in the western states. After a term of service in the Philippines, he returned to the United States, and was selected by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80 as a Brigade Commander in the division which he hoped to be allowed to raise for the World...