Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgathering curiosity was further piqued by the arrival at Palo Alto, just after Col. Donovan got there, of that other equally famed Assistant Attorney-General, Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, "personification of Prohibition." In view of the Hoover promise to appoint a commission to investigate the "grave abuses" now suffered by the "experiment noble in motive," newsgathering speculation ran to unanswered questions like this: Was the President-Elect asking Mrs. Willebrandt to tell Col. Donovan all she knew about Prohibition so that the redoubtable Colonel could make plans for stricter enforcement? Or was this conference preliminary to a great "Hoover...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
...Samuel Johnson. Friends found the same bluff exterior, the same "heart," the same relish in humor. The parallel between Dr. Allen Johnson and Dr. Samuel is obvious, superficial. Dr. Allen Johnson is diffident, crisp, quietly intellectual. Graduated from Amherst in 1892 he received his M. A. from that col lege three years later, the same year that President Coolidge was graduated cum laude. He has published a biography of Stephen A. Douglas, has delved deeply in to early Americana. At Yale, he was Larned Professor of American History. Since 1926 he has edited his Dictionary. The Dictionary will contain...
...Born. To Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers (Standard Oil, railways, public utilities, banks), an eight-pound grandson, child of Mrs. Arturo Peralta Ramos (Millicent Rogers). In 1927 she divorced her first husband, Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, by whom she had a son, Peter...
...Elected. Col. Edward Andrew Deeds of Dayton, Ohio, commercial aviation tycoon (Pratt & Whitney) who supervised the development of famed Wasp and Hornet airplane engines; to be a Director of the National City Bank of New York...