Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Color & the Colonel...
This is meant to counter the words of Colonel Charles C. Loughlin (ret.), who wrote [March 4], "The average Negro is treated like a second-class citizen because he is a second-class citizen." Remember, Colonel, there was a time when the Negro was not a citizen at all. He was a slave; then a "free" man-but without funds, without education, without anything. How could he become a first-class citizen? Of course, nowadays the average Negro has his N.A.A.C.P., but this average Negro honestly believes that what is really needed is a National Association for the Advancement...
...bigots like Colonel Loughlin who are responsible for the kakistocratic rule that pervades in the South and in Russia. Whose side did the colonel fight for, and from what kind of chair-plush, leather, or reclining...
...wake of the court-martial order this week, Colonel Nickerson was busily getting into step with heady speculations that the U.S. might have on its hands a new Billy Mitchell. At week's end he put out a statement "to clarify my intentions in taking the action I did," in which he reiterated the Army's claim that it ought to have its own intermediate-range ballistic missile. "Both technically and tactically this weapon is very similar to artillery," he said, "and very dissimilar to aircraft." Nickerson's attorney, Robert K. Bell, former law partner of Alabama...
...Gaza, while the first convoy of a 2,600-man, six-nation U.N. Emergency Force clattered in to take over the strip "for the purpose of maintaining quiet during and after" the Israeli withdrawal. At midnight Israel's one-eyed Army Chief Moshe Dayan met Lieut. Colonel Carl Engholm, UNEF commander in Gaza, in the town square. "Everything is going well," said Engholm. Less than 48 hours later, fast-moving General Dayan handed over the wrecked Egyptian gun positions overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba narrows, and Israel's army was gone from Egypt after a 126-day stay...