Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Vivian Gabriel, who was for 25 years a high official in the Indian Civil Service and is at present a member of the King's Household troops will speak this morning on India with especial reference to the Native States. The lecture will be in Sever 20 at 10 o'clock...
...Government of India." Colonel Vivian Gabriel for 25 years a high official in the Indian Civil Service, Sever 20, Government...
Friction Remedies. The antagonism between the Governor General and the Filipino legislature is the most immediate and vexing problem in the islands. As remedies, Colonel Thompson suggests that the administration of the Philippines be transferred from the War Department to some new bureau or department, that Governor General Wood's military advisers be replaced with civil experts, that the Filipinos be given increasing internal autonomy. Land Laws. The Philippine legislature should amend the land laws, so as to attract U. S. capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice...
...grounds that he had fired in self-defense when attacked by the Germans with canes. Said the Lieutenant with cold formality in speaking of the man he killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded by Lieutenant Rouzier were then sentenced respectively to two years and two months of imprisonment for threatening to assault him with their canes before he fired upon them. Four other Germans were also sentenced; but the French Lieutenant went scot free...
...wrote the story. E. Fabre made a play out of it. P. Potter put it into English. O. (Otis) Skinner makes it presentable in Manhattan today. Mr. Skinner wears the same faded regimentals that he sported 19 years ago; he is the same swaggering bon-vivant of a Napoleonic colonel with the old flourishes. The flourishes satisfy, but the plot leaves a stale taste. In a curtain speech after the third act, Mr. Skinner smilingly reveals his intention of reviving the play again in 1946. Actor Skinner will...