Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest moment of the even came when Staff Sergt. Saul Seigle, on behalf of Company A, presented Major Merriam a small token of the esteem with which his men looked up to him. The token was simply tangible evidence of the happiness the company experienced when the major was recently promoted from a captaincy...
...Public ownership of land, factories, utilities, banks and insurance companies; present owners to get "reasonable" compensation-token payments to big capitalists, 100% to little ones...
There is no doubt that U.S. and British bombings have created panic and terror in Italian cities ; that in their desperation the Italians have cursed the men who bring the bombs, forgetting that Italian bomb ers were active in Ethiopia and Spain and that Mussolini insisted on sending a token bombing force over Britain during the blitz. This made little difference to Mussolini. He fobbed off the British as "at least civilized, because they are Europeans," knowing that his people already have a well of resentment against the British to draw on. The vigor of his campaigns against...
...entire class and cadre attended the Harvard Commencement exercises in the University Yard on May 27 along with the other Army and Navy Schools in the University. Major John F. Heflin, Commandant, watched from the platform along with other Commandants of the various military and naval schools. The token certificate granted the Stat School by Harvard and presented by Major General Sherman Miles, was handed to Officer Candidate Donald B. Roble, who was designated to represent Class 9-43 for the ceremony...
Beefy Senator Bennett Champ Clark, isolationist from Missouri who voted against the extension of Selective Service four months before Pearl Harbor, paid a token installment on a political grudge against a top-flight soldier last week. He got the Senate to postpone its confirmation of Lieut. General Ben Lear's rank...