Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other noted honor done to Colonel (Continued...
...Hoover. To Colonel Thad H. Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and anyone else who cared to read it, Candidate Hoover wrote a letter. The language was clumsy here and there but the meaning was clear. Wrote Candidate Hoover...
...dear Colonel Brown: I have received through you and others requests from very many Republicans of Ohio that I permit my name to be entered in the Presidential primaries of that state...
...well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently there is far less sweetness and light in West Indian relations with U. S. than press dispatches and Lindbergh welcoming crowds might indicate. The Colonel refused to state whether or not, or to whom he would deliver the message. The third experience was a Rotary Club dinner with no speeches...
...plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...