Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute's affairs the Government claimed to see much that violated anti-trust laws. It objected to the way in which the Institute, whose members dominate the field, reported prices, equalized freight, fixed uniform maximum discounts to customers classified by volume or function. The Government objected, too, to the Institute's arbitration system and method of bonding each member ($25,000 to $100,000) to insure payment of penalties...
...India I saw what no one is likely to see again," reported Briton Brailsford. "Bombay obeyed two governments. "To the British government, with all its apparatus of legality and power, there still were loyal the European population, the Indian sepoys, who wear its uniform, a few of the merchant princes, and the older generation of the Moslem minority. "The rest of Bombay's population has transferred its allegiance to one of the British Government's too numerous prisoners: Mahatma Gandhi...
...Anne and Herbert III ranged themselves before the microphones, pulled the tail of a big white collie but flatly refused to talk. Finally their grandmother stepped in to help the baffled cameramen, asked the children what they wanted for Christmas. Herbert III listed his desires: a policeman's uniform, badge and club, a wagon and a "train engine-a big one." Peggy Anne wanted "a very big doll," several smaller ones and a wagon. Their six-month-old sister Joan, who had arrived in Washington in the arms of Nursemaid Florence Gehlke (see cut) was not brought...
...envied in their task of judging "intellectual maturity." If they can avoid the danger of accepting only high scholastic averages as a criterion, and still not go afield with vague demands for "qualities of leadership" they will escape using two standards that often prove to be anything but uniform. As far as possible, personal contact with the candidates would seem to suggest a good beginning for a sound judgment of their worth...
...present uniform is simple, moderately dignified, and wholly practical. It is distressing to notice how widespread is the belief that college undergraduates exist purely to put on a good show for the crowds that fill the football stadia. If the band's costume be criticized for being too "high-schooly", it might be remembered that after all Harvard is only a college, and not the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy, the Boston fire Department, nor even the American Legion...