Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm informality. There is a forgivable touch of propaganda: Crows a rookie: "If they treated me any better, I'd be suspicious." There is also a touch of ironic humor: A sergeant stands outside the post cinemansion with a rookie, pointing out the customers' identifying insignia. When he has worked up to the rank of general, he suggests that they step over to the library. For, says he: "We probably won't be seeing any generals here...
Reason: a State law forbids the use of a foreign government's insignia as a party emblem, and the hammer and pitchfork "stand for the same thing" as the hammer & sickle: labor's unity...
...Quebec, police rounded up another youth with a homemade D.F.C. and shoulder insignia. He had been lecturing on his "experiences" before a Rotary Club. When arrested he was planning a broadcast about his latest flight of fancy: piloting the Duke of Kent to Canada...
...named for General Robert E. Lee. The camp's newspaper was named Traveller, after Lee's horse. These progressive tributes to the Confederacy's first soldier were all right with the War Department, but when the camp's quartermaster corps submitted its proposed insignia last week the Department turned it down cold. Background of the rejected insignia were the Stars and Bars of the Confederate flag...
...family fortune. Vivian, not quite 18, is scheduled to make a splashy Newport debut next week. Jakie turned up there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans. He wore a windbreaker bearing the insignia of the New York Rangers' hockey team; one shoulder was tattooed with the Black Watch insignia. Colonel Creighton Webb, Jakie's great-uncle, said there wasn't going to be any elopement. Newport waited...