Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dean of the graduate school at Yale university urges that graduate schools throughout the country agree upon a scale of stipends to advanced students. Whatever the final plans adopted in preparing a uniform standard of granting scholarships, it would no doubt prevent this "shopping" about and give interested, deserving graduates a better opportunity to proceed with advanced study and research. Daily Illini...
Still smarting under the Mayor-elect's jibe, retiring Director Schofield among his last acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
...employees of the University are now so numerous that a more uniform and comprehensive system has become a necessity. In former times, of smaller things, each dean or director engaged, controlled and paid his employees, and attended to the cleaning and care of the buildings he used, subject to little oversight save in his total expenditure. Gradually the janitor's service, the cleaning and the like have been centralized under the office of the Comptroller, but uniform treatment of employees was not wholly insured. During the past year the Corporation called upon the Industrial Relations Counselors of New York...
...underplot in Sooky concerns Sooky's efforts to get into a juvenile club whose members wear uniforms and drill like soldiers. To do this, he learns how to play a bugle, marches with Skippy in a parade arranged to discomfort Skippy's father who is running for mayor. Presently, Sooky's mother dies; Sooky goes to live at Skippy's house. Given a soldier's uniform, he wears...
...first time since the Revolution Spanish troops paraded in dress uniform. Tousle-haired President Zamora rode down the Calle de Alcala through the city to the former Royal Palace, with a clattering escort of silver-cuirassed Presidential Guards. He was followed by blue-clad naval cadets, red-trousered regulars. Basque Miquelitos with pantaloons and scarlet berets, the khaki-clad Foreign Legion, Moorish cavalry in white bournouses, and the yellow-belted, shiny-hatted guardia civil. Even the sappers joined the parade, proudly carrying pontoons and bridge parts. The air force added a final touch. Squadrons of planes flew overhead scattering...