Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding examplar of a very sound old saying that one is, finished his long career -Judge Elbert H. Gary died in Manhattan at 81, the, as yet, unretired board chairman of the largest corporation in the world U. S. steel. He read law in his Uncle Henry's (Colonel Henry Valetted) office at Naperville, Ill., after returning from volunteer service in the Civil...
...Revolution and in the then-brewing World War. Prior to The Torchbearers, his most cele brated poem was Drake, an epic of British empire-building. Aged 47, Mr. Noyes lives in London, sensitive, earnest, fond of swimming. Mrs. Noyes (Garnett Daniels) is the daughter of a U. S. Army colonel...
Officials of Dayton accompanied Colonel Lindbergh while he visited the National Military Home to shake hands with veterans, while he placed a wreath on the grave of Wilbur Wright, while he attended a dinner given in his honor at which Mayor Allen C. McDonald presided. At this dinner, Mayor McDonald presented the aviator with a scroll, signed by himself, saying, "From the Citizens of Dayton ... on the occasion of his official visit ... as an evidence of their appreciation...
...Dayton, this time on the course of his U. S. tour to stir aviation interest. Early one afternoon the Spirit of St. Louis whirled, drifted, slid down out of a blue sky, landed on McCook Field. The field was almost literally deserted. So, after a brief conversation with officials, Colonel Lindbergh sailed up in the air once more, reappeared one hour later at the time scheduled for his arrival. Seven thousand citizens, shrilling and cheering, heard Colonel Lindbergh gravely remark on Dayton as an aviation centre...
...occasion of Colonel Lindbergh's official visit to Dayton there was no scowling, no muttering. City and county offices were ordered closed at noon. No department store displayed satirical advertisements. Nothing was said about back alleys. And the Dayton Daily News said: "Lindbergh Lasts. . . . The longevity of this Lindbergh 'boom' is as remarkable as anything in connection with Lindbergh's feat...