Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great batch of Army orders to join the new Armored Force. In officers' conferences the new force's commander, Brigadier General Adna Romanza Chaffee, leather-faced son of the late onetime Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, looked around at a wide assortment of Army insignia. Some, like himself, wore on their collars the crossed sabres of the Cavalry. Present also were the rifles of the Infantry, the cannons of the Artillery, the retorts of the Chemical Warfare Service, the flags of the Signal Corps...
...fast had the Army's newest branch been born that no one had had time to devise an insignia for it. But it was not conceived without planning. Last week, in the midst of organizing two armored divisions and other outfits to make up the First Armored Corps, Adna Chaffee could see and hear the good results of Army foresight. Part of it came in the kind of officers he was getting-the best the service has. More of it came from the sprawling plant of American Car & Foundry Co. at Berwick...
...Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...
...last fortnight in Manhattan, LIFE'S editors wrote Producer Chaplin a letter, told him they were publishing a picture of Actor Chaplin in uniform, wearing the insignia of his mythical totalitarian state - a double cross. Last week, two days after LIFE'S letter reached the Chaplin studio, 48 hours before LIFE was due on newsstands, Chaplin lawyers turned up in a U. S. district court, slapped down a suit for $1,000,000 damages, got an injunction restraining LIFE from publishing Dictator Chaplin's picture. To news dealers and subscribers had already gone 1,802,325 copies...
...latest meeting, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports approved the award of 145 insignia to participants in spring sports but rejected the recommendation submitted by the Undergraduate Athletic Council that major letters be awarded to any member of the swimming team who has participated twice in a Yale meet without placing...