Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an introduction by Donald K. David, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, President Conant put forth evidence of the changes that have come over the school, including the fact that most of his listeners were in uniform...
Here are a few addenda, before that old bell rings.... The uniform situation is very much ravelled at the moment. Should we buy anchor shoulder boards for our summer uniforms, and sell them to the next class? What hats can we wear with whites as Midshipmen? Can we wear whites as Midshipmen? For graduation, though, you'd better have an officer's visor cap, white cover, insignia, et al, and white shoes. Black shoes are required with khakis on and off the station. Tune in next week for answers...
...Higbee noted proudly that a general court-martial had never been necessary for any of his coastguardmen. One reason: Higbee in a seaman's uniform tried once to board a vessel, was ordered off by the guard. Pulling his dinghy to the other side, he tried again. This time he was knocked over the side. Next day Higbee commended his alert guard. Said he: "You don't get around only to catch up with the bums...
...Commission, meanwhile, came an 82-page report from the Tennessee Valley Authority, their third on the subject in six years, urging uniform freight rates throughout the nation. The report, entitled Regional Freight Rates-Barrier to National Productiveness, blasted the present rates as a major "economic maladjustment," standing in the path of U.S. postwar expansion. (Author of the first TVA report to this effect was J. Haden Alldredge, an ex-TVA economist, .who has since been appointed to ICC, and in fact became its chairman...
...shooting. He had loved polo, squash, tennis, skeet shoots, bird shooting, game fishing, fox hunting. Always he had done these things, if not superbly, at least with a flair. His rule for taking ribbons at horse shows: "If it's a civilian horse show, turn up in dress uniform, decorations and all; if it's a military show, wear civilian habit...