Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Panama, last week, a reunion was in progress. Workers on the great Panama Canal had convened from distant places to recall the days when "The Colonel" moved mountains; to recall how he heard their complaints, helped marry them, fathered them for seven sweating years. From Manhattan came a telegram that "The Colonel," whose ill health had prohibited his passage to the reunion, had died...
...Colonel W. S. Brown of the United States Army will be one of the speakers at the dinner. It is understood that the Association, realizing the growing importance of government support in college polo, will ask him to point out value of the game as an undergraduate sport when played under the auspices...
...Second School will be handicapped at the Conference by the fact that none of its representatives will have the rank of a Chief Executive, whereas the First School will be strengthened by the prestige of President Calvin Coolidge and by the primeval emotion which Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is expected to produce by landing at Havana while the Conference is assembling...
...prestige in the country's medical affairs that once was Cincinnati's is speedily returning. An important medical centre has developed. Last week Colonel William Cooper Procter (Procter & Gamble detergents) strengthened this Cincinnati movement. He gave $2,500,000 to the Children's Hospital for research work in pediatrics. Previously he had given $1,250,000 to that hospital. His business partner, James N. Gamble recently gave $1,500,000 to Cincinnati Christ Hospital...