Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, in young Lodge's day, raccoon coats were the proper uniform, and he was embarrassed at wearing a mink-lined coat. He proposed to his grandfather that the mink-lined coat be sold so that he could buy two raccoon coats for himself and his brother John (now governor of Connecticut). Cabot Lodge rowed on class crews, belonged to literary clubs and the Cercle Français. He worked hard, and got his degree in three years. "I wanted to get going," he explains. "I wanted to be a newspaperman...
Dimaggio said at the Yankee office that he never would don a baseball uniform again. He said he never had entertained managerial or coaching ambitions, and probably would accept a job with the Yankee organization as a television broadcaster...
Seattle's welcome to General Douglas MacArthur seemed almost unanimous as 300,000 turned out to cheer him. Seattle's farewell to MacArthur was angrily divided along party lines. Between hail & farewell, the general, in uniform, had delivered his sharpest attack to date on the Truman Administration...
...Belgrade's White Palace, Communist Tito, resplendent in a scarlet & gold-braided marshal's uniform of grey gabardine, talked for nearly four hours to 125 correspondents. Gist of his remarks...
...czar was pious Judge Gary, a teetotaler who ran it like a Sunday school, and who, in the words of one bitter critic, "never saw a blast furnace till after he died." At his annual "Gary dinners," he set the prices for the entire industry. Later he established uniform prices by his Pittsburgh Plus and basing point systems, both now outlawed.* He also fought and licked the Government trustbusters who sought to break up the Steel Trust. He won primarily because in the growing U.S., newcomers were able to grow, along with Big Steel, until Big Steel's share...