Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fill the vacancy thus caused on the active list of general officers, Brigadier General Richmond P. Davis of Camp Lewis (Washington state) was made a Major General and Colonel Walter C. Short, a San Juan Hill hero, became Brigadier General Short. To superintend West Point officialdom finally decided on Major General William R. Smith, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department (Fort Shafter...
...cavalry, once the most spectacular service of national defense, is so little heard of that few citizens know who is U. S. cavalry chief. Major General Herbert B. Crosby is his name. A 56-year-old Kansan, he served in Cuba, the west, the Philippines and, as a Colonel of Infantry, in France. He mounted the highest of U. S. horses...
...Colonel Roosevelt led a typical attack on Tammany graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
...Colonel Roosevelt's sin was not belittling Smith but in the crudity of his tactics. Smith can always be trusted to give back more than he receives in an open fight. Opponents of his presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...
...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against the Tiger of Tammany and the ghost of Tweed incarnate in Governor Smith was not only untrue, it was political blunder of the worst kind. It is better for the opposition not to meet Smith face to face but rather to direct Fabian warfare on his friends, relations, and religion...