Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then Captain Dreyfus was attached to the General Staff of the French Army. In September, 1894, a French spy, examining the overcoat pockets of one Colonel Schwarzoppen, German Military Attache, found torn scraps of paper which, pieced together, proved to be a letter describing items of secret military information obviously delivered to Colonel Schwarzoppen by some French officer who had turned traitor. Captain Dreyfus was a Jew and as such was held in suspicion by the higher French military authorities. He was accused of treason, convicted by a military court and sent to He du Diable, convict-establishment...
...Major Esterhazy of the French Army was accused of having written the treasonable document imputed to Captain Dreyfus. He was tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence in the Dreyfus trial had consisted of forged documents. One Colonel Henry, chief...
...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...
...Theodore Wallen, of the New York Herald Tribune staff, big, fat and slick looking? He was so described last week by Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, in an interview published in the New York Times. The Governor, a Democrat, felt that he had been misquoted by Mr. Wallen, who had attributed to him a "feeling" that President Coolidge would be reelected...
...choose 3 p. m., Sunday, July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...