Word: officerships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fall of the Bastille and the Emancipation Proclamation, it is a symbol of what can be done, more than it is a concrete accomplishment. There is in the 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...
...side) Perkins, 64, chairman of the board of the National City Bank of New York, chairman of the board of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. In World War I Harvardman Perkins was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, officership in the Legion of Honor, a commandership in the Order of the Crown of Belgium...