Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh has not flown from England to Australia in a series of hops lasting 15 days. That feat was performed by Australian Aviator Harold ("Bert") Kinkier. Last week, at Canberra the new Capital of Australia, a renowned British financier compared the feats of "Lindy" with those of "Bert...
Last week in Atlanta, Ga., at the annual putting-heads-together of William Randolph Hearst's 27 newspapers, a genial 54-year-old colonel was introduced. He was the new general manager, William Franklin Knox, with complete charge of editorial and business policies, responsible to no order except the occasional bulls of Mr. Hearst. Not since the ascendency of Solomon Solis Carvalho in 1917 had a Hearstling been given such wide powers. Col. Knox is a believer in tabloid journalism. Also he is expected to tour the U. S. with an eye to making the Hearst dailies more intensely...
...announcement says that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, C. O. Whitney, R. L. Brooks, H. P. Davison, and Thomas Hitchcock Jr., will act as judges of the contest...
Cried M. le Colonel Prosper Josse: "Clemenceau was the only legislator I saw during the entire War who came within five metres of the Germans...
...Colonel Ira Clifton Copley of Aurora, Ill. (papers in Illinois and California...