Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs and are not expected to be officer material at the end of their 90 days of general seamanship instruction, but they will receive certificates, ratings, the right to wear special insignia, the right to return for brushing-up courses later...
...motto. It planned to make carnivals respectable or break them. This was clever salesmanship on the part of A.F.A. Bulletins sent to State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A. membership carried, and the union found itself in the dreamlike position of being able to pick and choose which shows...
...Everybody knew which way we were going. . . . Yet there were men . . . who tricked the voters by wearing our insignia, only to turn against us as soon as they got in office. . . . Even while they hacked away at the foundation of the program with one hand, they were patting the President on the back with the other, protesting to the voters that they were really good Democrats . . . like the young man who abandoned his father and mother and then asked for public sympathy on the ground that he was an orphan...
...year. To the Commission goes all the line's Class B stock (2,100,000 shares), almost half of its 252,000 shares of Class A stock. Six months after the transfer, the Commission will abandon the Dollar name, and the familiar dollar-sign insignia will disappear for good from the high seas...
...room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia in the form of projectiles, on his doctor's orders lay on his stomach each day for an hour after lunch. To keep him company, all his male guests lay on their stomachs...