Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate, married a grand niece of Levi Strauss in 1914, entered the company, and became president in 1928. Levis were strictly work pants when Haas took over; he introduced "Levis for Ladies" in the 19303, hit the big time when bobby-soxers and college coeds adopted them as a uniform. Current sales: more than 10 million pairs a year. Succeeding Haas as president is Daniel E. Koshland, 63, also a San Franciscan, who joined the company in 1922, has served as vice president and treasurer. ¶ James David Zellerbach, 63, president of Crown Zellerbach Corp., was elected chairman...
...Kipling touched turned to brass. While more sensitive writers shopped about for rare metals, he jiggled the coppers of common knowledge in his pocket. "Shillin' a day, Bloomin' good pay," he wrote of the British soldier, long before other English writers had acknowledged the existence of the uniform that guarded them while they slept. Kipling had been sniped at once in the Khyber Pass and since then had become the spokesman for all men who have nothing but a uniform between themselves and death...
...Brattle has resurrected another museum piece, this time in the form of a German film made in 1931. Maedchen in Uniform does have some antique interest. As the Museum of Modern Art introduction says, its photography does have a bit of the modern freedom, but the "during" shots are easily recognized: they are used over and over again. Maedchen's musical background is also interesting, largely because it occurs so rarely. Unless one is a connoisseur of the development of the movie industry, however, he will find Maedchen only moderately absorbing, for the plot is a little lacking in intensity...
...legal fight centered on Article 3 (a) of the 1950 Uniform Code of Military Justice, which says that former service men who committed major crimes while in the armed forces "shall not be relieved from amenability to trial by courts-martial" by reason of their civilian status...
...court continued, "deprives of jury trial and sweeps under military jurisdiction over 3,000,000 persons who have become veterans since the act became effective. That number is bound to grow from year to year; there are now more than 3,000,000 men and women in uniform. These figures point up what would be the enormous scope of a holding that Congress could subject every ex-serviceman and woman in the land to trial by court-martial...