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...King contracts to outfit the entire Navy. The founder's youngest son, John Hull Browning, branched out into banking and railroads in New Jersey, was four times a Presidential elector. He died of apoplexy in the Erie Railroad ferry house in 1914, shortly before Browning, King began making khaki for the A. E. F. Another son, Edward Franklin Browning, was the father of Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, whose carryings-on with "Peaches" Heenan Browning made front page news in 1927. Before Depression Browning, King, whose stock is privately owned, had 31 stores and five Brownings, paid sizeable annual dividends...
...best way of obtaining an efficient, non-grafting control is the union of military, naval, and commercial aviation under one head, a proposal which was made several years ago by General Billy Mitchell, probably the most tactless and the most capable firebrand that has recently worn the Army khaki, and a proposal which is now nearer to realization than ever before. Efficiently run, this would give us an organized, unified, and powerful airforce, and a comparatively safe and graft-free commercial service. Until the day comes, stick to the rails...
...Khaki. First shirt organization to gain wide attention was the Khaki Shirts (claimed membership: 25,000), founded by Art J. Smith (christened Herbert N.) after the 1932 bonus march on Washington. Its membership was open to all U. S. citizens who subscribed to the Constitution, believed in a white man's God, paid $2 a year to Mr. Smith, and bought his khaki shirts, boots, etc. His program included "America for Americans," abolition of the gold standard, a greenback bonus, freedom for the Philippines, abolition of the "chainstore evil" free coinage of silver. Not its assorted panaceas...
...nominal ruler of 30,000,000 Manchukuans, of whom less than 10% are full-blooded Manchus, Henry Pu Yi's intentions are of the best. Month ago he gave his first interview as Emperor-to-be. Henry Pu Yi wore the new khaki uniform of a Manchukuan Field Marshal with which the Japanese Government had fitted him out, complete with embroidered orchids on the epaulets, and gleaming field boots. Though he speaks English perfectly an interpreter solemnly translated questions and answers. He announced...
...Manhattan taxi driver and antiFascist; and one Tillie Golia; in Irving Plaza Hall, Manhattan. Best man: Norman Thomas, No. 1 U. S. Socialist. Wedding guests: some 600 Socialists, Communists, anarchists, syndicalists, antiFascists. Day before Terzani had been acquitted of fatally shooting a friend at a riotous meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America (Fascist) last July...