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...tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton...
...sure to be memorable. On June 15, two days before the Fleet ends its 17-day visit to New York, all hands will be called on the quarter-deck of the Fleet's flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn out in their gold braid and cocked hats. Admiral Sellers will step forward, read an order appointing him commandant at Annapolis. Then lean, bearded Joseph Mason Reeves will read an order making him master of all U. S. warships. "Bull"' Reeves has been an outstanding naval figure since that autumn afternoon in 1894 when, injured...
Same day President von Hindenburg decreed that the German Army and Navy, heretofore technically independent of the Nazi Party, must wear the Nazi swastika on their cockades and their uniforms. Tailors went to work stitching braid swastikas on service uniforms, gold for the Navy, silver for the Reichswehr...
Prizeman Werner Heisenberg of the University of Leipzig is a self-assured young German who enjoys his scientific prestige as much as he does playing the piano. His father is Professor of Medieval & Modern Greek at the University of Munich; an uncle is a Manhattan braid manufacturer. He has visited the U. S. twice, went home the first time by way of Japan. On one of his visits a Columbia physicist complimented him gracefully on the contrast between his youth and his achievements. Replied Dr. Heisenberg: "You know what they call the new physics in Germany? They call...
...Last week Western Union messenger boys in Manhattan and Chicago were issued new uniforms: darker "forestry grey," with gold instead of black braid, with new eight-pointed caps. The new uniforms will be put on Western Union messengers throughout the U. S. Every night all messengers have to turn in their uniforms to be pressed (and periodically cleaned), their puttees to be shined. †Rev. James Henry Wiggin, retired from the Unitarian ministry in 1875, edited theological and technical manuscripts for the Cambridge Press. According to his own account he was employed by Mrs. Eddy and spent four years...