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Reasons for the ban of Stickler Householder, a newcomer to the breezy Air Forces: they might be interpreted as slurs on women, the courage of soldiers or as drinking songs. About all that was left in the marchers' repertoire: Wait 'til the Sun Shines, Nellie...
Seeing no chance for advancement, Vetterli left the FBI in 1938. Sight unseen, Salt Lake City's Mayor Ab Jenkins appointed him police chief in 1940. A strict disciplinarian and stickler for rules, Vetterli is unpopular with his policemen, who, like many Western police forces, are fairly casual about discipline...
...shoulders of Argentina's Foreign Minister. A career diplomat and author of heavy works on jurisprudence, Ruiz Guiñazú rose from obscurity to president of the League of Nations Council because Argentina alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might be significant changes...
...stickler for scholarship, Professor Troxell realized he couldn't call his rocky instrument a xylophone (xylon is Greek for wood). After considering "lithophone" and "petroeuphonium," he decided to call it simply a petrophone...
Meanwhile the staff worked hard at laying out the biggest maneuvers the U.S. Army had ever had. They found that their new boss was an uncompromising stickler for realism. He wanted no more of the old style of maneuver, in which the U.S.'s undermanned, underarmed Army had to pretend that one man with a flag was a tank. He also insisted on "free" maneuver-i.e., battle exercises in which commanders get a job to do, perform it the way they want...