Word: mascotism
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...that tight little clique known as the "Pilsudski Colonels" were still running Poland while newly omnipotent President Moscicki continued to accept the Army's advice as he always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland's War of Independence...
Georgia fancies itself something of a Southern Yale. Its first president was a Yaleman, Abraham Baldwin, who arrived from New Haven with blueprints of Yale's Connecticut Hall, used them to build Georgia's Franklin Hall. Aping Yale, Georgia took a bulldog as its mascot. When Georgia had a new stadium to dedicate in 1929 Yale graciously sent its football team, which Georgia trounced...
Just in case hell should break loose, former President Gaston Doumergue, today the somewhat self-conscious mascot of French law & order, left the country estate to which he has twice "retired forever," bustled into Paris...
Died. Eddie Bennett, 31, longtime (1921-32) hunchback mascot to the New York Yankees, who won seven pennants, four World's Series, during his time; of alcoholism; in Manhattan...
...Pilot James Robert ("Jimmy") Wedell in 1933 has long been the goal of a heavyset, square-jawed Frenchman named Raymond Delmotte. One day last week, after a year of trying, 40-year-old Pilot Delmotte made five more unsuccessful attempts. On the sixth try, with his fox terrier mascot "Tailwind" in the cockpit, he shot his Caudron Renault monoplane four times over a measured course at Istres, zipped so fast (321 m.p.h.) on one lap that he averaged 314.1 m.p.h. for the four, set a new record. To Pilot Delmotte, for his pains, the French Air Ministry promptly awarded...