Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Lansing, General Tasker H. Bliss, Colonel E. M. House...
...boyhood stands for today. And I submit that your Mr. Know-it-all, who comments on John Muller's letter [TIME, June 20] should be ashamed of himself, having placed on the cover page of TIME pictures of several foreign and other uninteresting persona rather than our own Colonel Lindbergh. I think that you owe to yourselves and to the public of the world a most humble apology for your lack of judgment. . . . J. MONTROSE EDREHI Pensacola...
...course, on orating lips more often than even that of Washington or Lincoln. Augustus Orloff Thomas* of Maine, head of the world's federated education associations, invoked the Lindbergh "sporting blood," "sporting sense," "sportsmanship"?and also that of France, whom he pictured forgetting War debts when Colonel Lindbergh arrived?as " 'the wooden horse' by means of which we can break into the walled city of human hatreds?of racial and national jealousies...
...reported as having ticked off a practice round in 68, Atlanta's mind was easier on this score. The other matter was the sale of the Atlanta Constitution, premier of Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders did not appeal strongly to Atlantans, than whom no people of the South...
...told about being sent to see if Colonel Lindbergh had any "airdrome sweethearts" out on Long Island. She spoke with eagerness of visiting a jail which lodged a Brooklyn murderess "who killed her husband and now is sorry." One of her experiences, as she told it at length, was patly typical of the kind of education the Daily News gives its reporters and readers...