Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the impression made by General Pershing's "Lafayette, we are here." Perhaps he would have caused an even greater thrill had he said, "Lafayette, nous sommes arrivés." But it remained for another U. S. soldier and statesman to make so perfect a gesture. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, after taking oath last week on his late great father's presidential Bible as ninth U. S. civil governor at San Juan. Porto Rico, spoke in Spanish the first 200 words of his inaugural speech. The remainder of the speech was delivered in English, but inasmuch...
...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...
Doffing his hat to George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon, the Prime Minister asked if Superintendent Colonel Dodge remembered the "frightful heat and thunderstorm" on the occasion of the Prime Minister's last visit, when he was only "Mr." (TIME, April 18, 1927, et seq.) Colonel Dodge looked perplexed...
...Colonel William Joseph Donovan, onetime (1925-29) Assistant to the Attorney General, and Henry Herrick Bond, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, announced the law firm of Donovan & Bond in Washington...
Through the offer of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Z. Landon, the undergraduate committee will be assisted in its tender of hospitality by the Prize Drill Platoon, First Corps of Cadets (211th. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft) of Massachusetts. Forty men clad in striking uniforms of white jackets with light blue facings and light blue trousers will compose the troop which will first act in the capacity of official escort to the Governor in the morning program. Following the review upon the Common, the platoon will be dismissed at the Armory, and will reassemble in the Yard in time to assist the Reception...