Word: guidons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis, Tenn., Negro Eddie Guidon was charged with operating a whiskey still. He at first pleaded guilty. Asked how much moonshine he had made, Eddie Guidon replied, "None." To the judge he explained: "I sho can't prove I ain't guilty, boss." Verdict: Not guilty...
...camp paper, "The Guidon," which appeared soon after the opening of camp was directed by I. tucker Burr, III '39 as Editor-in-Chief. As assistants from Harvard he had Edwin R. Clarke '39; Arthur R. Borden, '39; Frank E. Southard '39 Law; and Walter Kaitz, '39. AS department editors, Cleveland Amory '39; Rud Hoye '39 and Mathew Taback '39; while sports were handled by Francis J. Donovan Jr., '39. With the excellent assistance of the Yale members of the board a fine paper was turned out. Every phase of camp life was aptly covered; in fact Walter Winchell probably...
...started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang manfully. Chairman Snell rapped for order, smiled when...
...Hongkew Park. U. S. Consul General Edwin S. Cunningham, oldest, most experienced of Shanghai diplomats, warned Japanese authorities that such a celebration would be dangerous, but nobody paid attention. In massed squares battalion after battalion of Japanese infantry goose-stepped across the parade ground, each with its fluttering sunburst guidon. In the front of the reviewing stand were many of the highest officers in the Japanese Army & Navy: Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Commander of the Shanghai fleet; General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Shanghai; Maj.-General Kenkichi Uyeda; Consul General Kuramatsu Murai; Minister to China Mamoru...