Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wore the uniform of an American soldier, sailor or marine, who fails to cast his ballot for one Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of these United States of America -every day that fellow stays out of an insane asylum he is away from home. Personally, I would walk on my hands & knees from Memphis to Washington, D. C., just for the opportunity of making known, in my very limited way, my admiration, adoration, and adherence to the policies of the World's Greatest Human Being- Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...retorted by demanding $3 for all milk regardless of the use to which it was put. Last week they were storming through the State, stumping like politicians for higher milk prices. Of Governor Lehman they demanded a special session of the Legislature to empower the Commission to establish a uniform price. The Governor apologetically declined...
...difference between Catalonia and Russia," reported Mr. Duranty in the New York Times, "was strongly emphasized to me by [Anarchist] Garcia Oliver, a sturdy young man in his early thirties, wearing a militia uniform with a Sam Browne belt and a pistol on his hip. The scene was reminiscent of early revolutionary days in Petrograd...
With this program, General Franco found himself surrounded in Seville last week not only by his Spanish staff but by individuals in Spanish uniform who obviously were Italians and Germans. Hitherto bombing by planes of the Franco-Mola forces had been so inaccurate that in London, famed Hector Bywater could write that thus far not a single Spanish ship seemed to have been sunk by air bombs. Two days later planes of the Revolution put the Government's best and biggest war boat Jaime Primero (James the First) out of action with 625-lb. bombs which scored direct hits...
Anderson, Clayton & Co. grew rapidly, taking over gins, branches and business from the defunct firm with which Will Clayton got his start. The firm promoted the round bale (250 Ib.) of uniform consistency which requires only one man to handle it and particularly pleases foreign buyers who deplore the shabby wrapping of the rest of U. S. cotton. Today Anderson, Clayton operate traveling gins in sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior...