Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Arthur Kipling, chief of the Legion's military and police division, reported the legionaries' Paris conduct as "150% better than the U. S. Conventions." Not more than five cases of drunkenness were in court at any one moment. Cafe and taxicab arguments resulted in no serious assaults. The Red Cross treated only 1,400 cases during the week, mostly sore feet, fatigue, colds, temporary alcoholism...
Ranks would not matter in themselves. The point is that they necessitate large staffs-bandsmen, servants, clerks, radio and signal men, orderlies, typists and typewriters. "Yeomen," wrote Rear Admiral Magruder, "are the men who do the typing and paper work -that is, the red tape." Hazy distribution of authority and inactive navy yards were two more subjects discussed. Then some more figures for 1926: "To operate, maintain, repair and supply the vessels of the fleet cost $163,000,000. And to administer this sum cost nearly half as much, or $77,500,000. ". . . For every dollar expended for repairs...
...they wouldn't accept my contributions to the Confidential Guide to College Courses, giving me some silly excuse about having no money to defend libel suits. That was uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in Shemokin Pa., I put a large red apple on teacher's desk daily, and Freshman year I gave my German A instructor a box of ripe red raspberries one day and a basket of nice prickly pears the next...
...have just read an Associated Press item which quotes from your editorial concerning the Employment Bureau. I am surprised to hear that the CRIMSON has taken such an attitude toward what is called the "red tape" of the bureau. In my opinion, the jobs handed out should go, first of all, to the students who really need money in order to remain in college. Of course I do not think that the jobs should be given to men just because they are poor, since, among any group of college men there are individuals entirely unsuited to the jobs...
...tyranny of so-called efficiency" is "The Harvard Crimson's" phrase for the red tape of the university's employment bureau, which seems to have an attack of questionnaires. One would think that some simple entries about the student looking for a job would be enough for the bureau, seeing that the applicant's character, circumstances and attainments have been investigated to exhaustion before his admission to the university. But the bureau files must be fed with questionnaires more and more and more inquisitive, according to "The Crimson," under threats of blacklisting the applicants; the latter must...