Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission was to consist of three parts: five executive officials representing the Governor; five state Senators; five state Representatives. The ten legislators were to form standing committees on interstate cooperation, to which all bills for such co-operation are automatically referred. Thus the negotiators of compacts or understandings for uniform laws are responsible for them in committee and on the floor, and thus the Governor through his appointees is committed to them in advance, thus dozens of hitches are eliminated...
When grey-eyed, Mississippi-born young Mark Ethridge returned from the War to his newshawking job on the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, he shortly lost all his pay in a crap game and, as a gesture of extreme indigence, showed up for work in his Navy uniform. Such traditional didoes did not impede Mark Ethridge's progress on the paper. Soon he was city editor, later managing editor...
...Kiddies Club of England. The 165,000 moppet members of the latter swear to imitate her character, conduct and manners. Possibly the smallest of her international titles is that of mascot to the Chilean Navy. President Arturo Alessandri, an admirer, conferred this dignity on her, together with a special uniform...
Nearly four hours later a woman who lives in the mountains near Uniontown, Pa., and who has the only telephone in her neighborhood, saw a bruised and bloody girl in a torn, singed uniform stumbling up to her door, escorted by a neighbor. The girl gasped that she must use the telephone. She called a number, clutched the instrument for support, steadied her voice when she got an answer. 'Mr. Williams, this is Nellie Granger, hostess on Flight I. The ship crashed and started to burn. . . . Both Otto Ferguson and Lewis [the copilot] were killed. . . . Nine passengers were killed...
...hundreds of U. S. college students, the Reserve Officers Training Corps, compulsory in most land grant colleges, means the preparation of young men for death on a battlefield. For thousands more, the R. O. T. C. means an itchy uniform, tedious target practice, tiresome drills. Whether through idealism or indolence, opponents of the R. O. T. C. last week made trouble on both coasts...