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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Insignia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Very fine" were the words used by Colonel Collins speaking of the drill in which 202 students and officers took part. Blue stars on the sleeves of all uniforms are the insignia which stand for an excellent rating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West point Shamed as ROTC Puts on Gala Spectacle Here | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...Ethiopian War Thomas Joseph Pendergast, Democratic dictator of Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Other points from Eyewitness Mowrer: "Three officers in plain khaki uniforms, devoid of any insignia whatever, came into the room and talked in Russian and made pencil marks on the map stretched over the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Day After Day | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...George's Standard, which varied somewhat from the ordinary press versions. There was nothing derogatory to the dignity of any man, even the Pope of Rome, in appearing 50 years ago in a high silk hat, vulgarly called a "stovepipe" or a "plug." It was the universally accepted insignia of respectability and gentlemanliness. And as to his "walking down Broadway" in it, that had no more connotation of an American Pope than his walking down Piccadilly, the Rue de la Paix or Unter den Linden would have connoted an English, French or German Pope. In fact, I never heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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