Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nature of this latest grant little indication of a change in attitude. A seaman's rating and an eventual petty officership may in themselves seem like the ultimate in advancement to the colored volunteer, who in the past has been suffered in the navy only as mess mate, steward, or cook. But on a comparative scale this move is hardly better than the closed door policy that the navy has clung to in the past through thick and thin...
Matthews Hall will lose its most distinctive figure tomorrow when Victor Ehler trades in his janitor's duties to take over the position of Chief Gunner's Mate in the Navy. Vic will leave for the Newport, R. I. training station to rejoin the Navy after almost 17 years at Harvard...
...lacks a few teeth and his hair is grey, but at 69 George Humble is all set to ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark to add to the swatch of eight that adorn his sleeve already (they represent 32 years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back...
Balance. In Memphis, Criminal Court Judge Tom Harsh got a new bench-mate-Judge James Pleasants...
...should not go on living with a man when she dances better with another man. This philosophical approach trips and stumbles into paganism when he takes to liquor while his wife and Joe go off to the game together. In a hilarious drunk scene he resolves to hold his mate as a tiger does-by fighting for her. He does hold her-not with tigerish might, but by reading the trustee-forbidden Vanzetti letter to his composition class and becoming the college hero...