Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resultant controversy developed the following points: Organ experts testified that vibration was injurious to organs, that organs in Manhattan (where traffic vibration is not inconsiderable) were kept harmonious only by weekly tunings. Colonel Hodges also objected to the highway on general principles, remarking "we are not running a public park up here, we are trying to run a school for military instruction." Colonel Greene held to his written permit and threatened to sue the Federal Government, since the State had appropriated $250,000 for the highway and spent $3,000 in preliminary work. It appeared that the present chief highway...
...available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander Edmund, wearing the smart full-dress of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy...
...Leonard Wood was the personal Surgeon of President William McKinley and became the close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy in President McKinley's cabinet. With Civilian Roosevelt as lieutenant colonel, Dr. Wood as Colonel Wood organized the "Rough Riders" from prominent athletes of eastern universities, cowboys, rancheros and Indians, for service in the Spanish-American War. Dr. Wood's talk last week was in advocacy of a $2,000,000 fund now being quietly collected in the U. S. to alleviate, study and prevent leprosy. Chief experiments will be conducted on the Philippines...
...This is just another of Colonel Green's strange whims," saiD one of his neighbors, Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton, sister-in-law of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Perhaps Colonel Green does have strange whims?most wealthy men with scientific inclinations are considered "queer" by their neIghbors. But, more likely, Colonel Green's newest whim will make him a patron of U. S. aviation as famed as Rodman Wanamaker, Raymond Orteig, Daniel Guggenheim, Henry & Edsel Ford...