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When the Continental Congress established the U. S. Marine Corps in 1775, sharp-eyed Benjamin Franklin marked on the drums of the recruiting officers a rattlesnake with the inscription "Don't Tread On Me." The Marine Corps drums still bear that motto. In the act of 1798 which confirmed the Marines' organization, there was provision for a Drum Major, Fife Major, and 32 drums & fifes. In 1799 a band was formed at the Marine encampment in Philadelphia, then the U. S. capital. When the Marines moved to Washington, Drum Major William Farr began to give open air concerts...
There are times when the story of Life Begins is almost snowed under by a blizzard of tiny garments and when Directors James Flood and Elliott Nugent seem to have forgotten that ''Don't confuse the issue" is as good a motto for films as for maternity hospitals. There are too many scenes showing a mother's pleased surprise on first viewing her offspring, too many shots of prop infants wrapped in blankets. Despite these faults and a theme which is a little too obviously dripping with drama, Life Begins, first release on Warner Brothers' 1932-33 production program, manages...
Roland H. Hartley is currently campaigning for his third term as Governor of Washington. A former timber operator, he has never been known as a champion of progressive education, or even of that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must...
...millions rolled in, it occurred to him to try applying his formula to a newspaper, in the city where the gumchewing population is largest. In Manhattan in September 1924 appeared his tabloid Evening Graphic, a daily magazine of sexationalism which announced itself a "crusading newspaper," with the motto "Nothing But the Truth...
...Four and no more" was the motto of the Finance Committee when it wrote these tariff items into its tax bill. Progressive Republicans and low-tariff Democrats loudly denounced their inclusion as the result of logrolling. An apparent Democratic trade: Barkley of coal-producing Kentucky would vote for an oil tariff if Connally of oil-bearing Texas would vote for a coal duty. Hayden of copper-mining Arizona would support both levies if Messrs. Barkley and Connally would help him get a rate on copper...