Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissar for Shipbuilding Ivan T. Tevosyan. They were entertained in state. At the Chancellery they drove past the huge bronze doors, were honored by a company of the Führer's bodyguard standing at attention, entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short ride on a German warship as the guest of Reich...
Ambassadors are legmen in gold braid. One of the best reporters of them all is Great Britain's Ambassador to Germany Sir Nevile Henderson. The reason the 75,000-copy first printing of the British Blue Book, including the reports he sent his Government from Berlin from May 28 to Sept. 1, sold like hot cakes in London last week was therefore not hard to find. He had turned in a world scoop, a still-warm drop of the very blood of history, a terrifying picture of how war is born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring...
...built with PWA money, were still plaguing the Navy in 1936. For speed and efficiency in an essentially industrial enterprise, Franklin Roosevelt needed a man who believed in a Big Navy, who understood manufacturing, who also believed in the New Deal and who had no ingrained reverence for gold braid. All these qualities he found in Charles Edison...
Easily the prettiest scene in Washington last week was the annual White House Reception to the diplomatic corps, unofficial opening event of Washington's social season. Not all its prettiness, however, was in polychrome uniforms and effusions of gold braid...
...when a hat was passed around the stadium to send the group to Princeton. Few realize the length of the expense sheet of a big band, running from trips and uniforms to polish and pressing, even though Harvard is lucky that the Puritan tradition forbids bearskin shakos and braid. Failure to appreciate these costs is principally to blame for the lack of support from the students and not a lack of pride by the college in its band, a pride now greater for the organization's spirit and resourcefulness...