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...stepped from his plane General Sandino looked the part: big pistol on hip, broad sombrero, soft white towel knotted carelessly around his neck, over-size field glasses dangling against unpressed khaki uniform, high top boots. Bellowed the National Guardsmen, "Viva Sandino...
Adios! Adioos! wailed many a black-eyed belle of dusty Corinto last week as she waved farewell to her khaki-clad "matrimony."† The U. S. Marines were at last leaving Nicaragua for home. The long planked pier at the Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes...
Characteristically STALIN uttered no harangue last week, though the Dictator did acknowledge the plaudits of Moscow's marching million by waving his khaki cap. It was his henchman, the Soviet President, peasant-born Comrade Mikhail Kalinin, who made the speech of the week. Addressing the Moscow Soviet, while Secretive Stalin sat impassive on the platform, Orator Kalinin told all the Russians how well off they are, with particular reference to the U. S. "The American President," cried the Russian President, "acts like an illiterate peasant in the fields waiting for heaven to send him rain! Hoover waits for prosperity...
...that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their leases, when low-laden tankers from Trinidad, Tampico and Maracaibo could not bring the crude in fast enough, you never heard much about Sun Oil Co. If it was mentioned at the Tulsa Club, where engineers in khaki pants and tall boots fingered field maps with bankers in tailor-made clothes, people were inclined to smile. The Sun was a fine old company. But it just did not fit into oil's new tempo...
...useless; against the hard shell of sincerity it can make no impress; to the skeptic it would be sadly bromidic. It is sufficient to draw the obvious analogy. To the average undergraduate, such a performance as the Rollins oath appears a trifle suggestively reminiscent of those faded, shrunken khaki dungarees once the foil for a pretty gilt badge...