Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army of the Republic was 100,000 strong. Eighteen years out of the Civil War, Union veterans were in the prime of their early 40's marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in 1866 as a patriotic, non-political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading hatred of the Rebels, "waving the bloody shirt" from every political stump as it packed Congress with...
Meantime, through the flag-decked streets of Cleveland last week tramped a veterans' army far greater than the Denver procession of 1883. Of the American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11½-hr. parade. Eighteen years out of the World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury...
Boston-type trusts are 1) always in the process of selling more stock to the public and 2) always willing to buy back their stock at approximately its liquidating value. Thus they have the "open-end" feature of fixed trusts, the management feature of common trusts and their own unique feature, redeemable shares. Last week at hearings in Washington, SEC inspected the oldest (1924), biggest ($110,000,000) Boston-type trust in the U. S. - Massachusetts Investors Trust...
Believed to be the only thing of its kind found anywhere in the regular College curriculum, a field course in child psychology forms one of the requirements for the soccer managerial competition now in process of organization...
...what curious process of thinking did University Hall come to the conclusion that vice walks unattended or virtue walks in pairs? It seems possible that the DuBarrys of Cambridge and Allston can be induced to pool their assets for the benefit of a group party, and then joy may reign unconfined in the Houses with the blessings of both janitors and House Masters...