Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issue of Oct. 21, p. 17, "General Pershing's 'Lafayette, we are here.' " Not his. Col. Charles E. Stanton, U.S.A., now of San Francisco, spoke for ''Black Jack" at Picpus Cemetery, and coined the phrase. When Stanton wrote his speech in advance of delivering it, Pershing read it and inked his O.K. on it. The manuscript belongs to the Family (club) of S.F. The phrase is its preoration. Furthermore, Pershing gave Stanton credit some years ago in a letter published in Collier...
Square and sober is Col. Carlos Ibanez, glum Dictator-President of Chile. Last week he plodded through the stalls of Santiago's national cattle show, gazed owl-solemn at placid Guernseys and mottled Ayrshires, then left, still dignified and stately...
False Lindbergh Book. Some foolish crook took the pains to write a book titled We Fly and, purporting to represent Col. Lindbergh, tried to sell it to Dorrance & Co., Philadelphia publishers, as his work. The attempted fraud was uncovered last week when George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher of Col. Lindbergh's We, asked Lindbergh if he had changed publishers. He declared that he had written no other book, had no intention of writing...
...through the giant curved rolling door at the end of the building marches Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Navy's bureau of aeronautics. With him are President Litchfield, Designer Arnstein, Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, who Drobably will head the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. (see col. 3). They mount a platform above the arc of the master ring. President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett the gold rivet and a silver-plated hand riveting machine, which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places the rivet...
Newspapers do not often compliment each other, with or without cause. But last week Variety, Manhattan theatrical weekly, took off its slouch hat to the august New York Times, thus: HONEST TIMES "Col. Charles Lindbergh finally sent the only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New York Times for enlargement. They were snapshots and turned out beautiful. "Times offered Lindbergh $1,500 for the set. They'd have made ideal roto 'shots.' Lindbergh declined the offer and asked for a bill for the enlargement, which the Times sent. "If the colonel had sent...