Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military Inspection. The President then undertook a systematic, full-schedule inspection of Hawaii. In two days, touring about in an open Packard, his seersucker suit and Panama hat conspicuous among the gold braid of generals and admirals, he visited Marine and Naval air stations, Hickam Field, a jungle training center, ammunition dumps, supply bases, hospitals and Pearl Harbor itself...
...hail-fellow straw-hat pomposity, passing out hot dogs and free seeds with a glad hand...
They wore rakish straw and panama hats gleaned on the march. One Maori wheeled his Bren gun in a streamlined perambulator. Another wore a silk hat and carried a walking stick, his Bren gun strapped across his back. One company marched into a village, captured outlying houses in the midst of their own barrage. Complained a prisoner: "We didn't think you would come until the barrage lifted...
...prospective U.S. candidates for the red hat, two are virtual certainties: Archbishop Spellman and Chicago's Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch. Both, as a matter of fact, may now be Cardinals in petto, i.e., in the Pope's breast...
...Stars & Stripes was shifted from the Army Service Forces to the politically wary Bureau of Public Relations. G.I. staffmen, already alarmed by the ouster of Colonel White for attempting to bring his G.I. readers a full budget of home-front news (TIME, July 17). wondered if the brass hats were taking over in force. But they could be sure of one thing: Captain Neville would fight his hardest to keep the Army paper free of brass-hat caution, full of G.I. flavor...