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Long vice president of the National Council and International Scout Commissioner, in 1926 Scout Schiff was among the first to receive the Scouts' highest awards, the Silver Buffalo which he wears around his neck when arrayed in khaki Scout tunic and shorts...
...Oswald's Record: Educated for the army at Sandhurst; fought in France with the 16th Lancers, later with the Royal Flying Corps; first returned to Parliament as a Conservative in the "Khaki Election" of 1918; returned as an Independent in 1922 and 1923; returned as a Laborite in 1926 by beer-loving Smethwick...
Swank Spanish airmen have been a corps d'elite, have strutted in natty green uniforms, are now reduced to mere khaki...
Harvey G. Woodward made a fortune in Birmingham and Manhattan real estate and in his family's Woodward Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment...
...discovered soon after the war that khaki and drill lost their glamor and that more attractive allurements had to be found if college men were to enroll in these courses. Therefore in three main ways the courses advertised themselves as being something for little...