Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schleicher prefers velvet gloves. He still smiles and tells jokes, likes to stand shyly in the back row in group photographs of the Cabinet. He dislikes announcements and interviews. Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform for a grey sack suit and a most pacific necktie. Mild as milk were his answers to Correspondent Birchall's written questions...
...President 30 messages. He hath the program but he don't seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting to carry his "message" to the President...
...unarmed B. E. F. did not give the troopers a real fight. They were too stunned and surprised that men wearing their old uniform should be turned against them. Here & there veterans would toss back gas bombs with half-forgotten skill. kick the troopers' horses, throw a few-bricks, swear bitter oaths at the impassive regulars, most of them youngsters. But resistance was wholly unorganized...
What It Meant. On the surface the Junker dictatorship was a triumph for "Handsome Adolf" Hitler and his followers. For months the Fascists have been demanding the right to parade in uniform. They now have won the right. They have demanded the dissolution of the Prussian Cabinet and the nationalization of the schupos (Prussian police). They now have that too. and the Junker government has harried the Communists in a way to warm the cockles of every Fascist heart. But was it a Hitlerite victory? Wrote the London Daily Express...
...elaborate are the precautions taken by armored car services against theft that, in big banking centres, movements of money and securities are taken casually (TIME, July 18). Into Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. last week walked a man in the uniform of a guard of U. S. Trucking Corp. He told the teller he had "come for the money for the Federal Reserve." The teller handed him $56,325, scarcely looked at the receipt. The money was seen no more. Police scanned the records of former employes of U. S. Trucking Corp...