Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs...
Bewildered correspondents could get no news of the shooting at the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, which they found strangely vacated by club-footed Minister Paul Josef Goebbels and his propaganda staff. Dominant and domineering General Göring, resplendent in an Air Force uniform of his own design, gave out the first official news...
There were, however, two selections on the all-star team last week about which no baseball addict was likely to complain. Although both leagues this season are using a uniform lively ball, it has so far been a pitcher's year. Carl Hubbell of the Giants and Vernon Gomez of the Yankees are indisputably the best pitchers in their leagues. If every seat in the Polo Grounds is sold next week it will be because the crowd wants to see them pitch against each other, as they may do in the next World Series. Giant Hubbell, long lean left...
...Federal Procedure Act transfers power from Congress to the U. S. Supreme Court. Heretofore that august tribunal has worked reforms only in the matter of speeding up appeals from below. Henceforth the Supreme Court will fix rules of procedure in all Federal Courts- conveniently simple, workable, and uniform rules that can be changed without legislation when conditions demand. In drafting its rules the Supreme Court will probably have the help of a special assistant to the Attorney General and heed the advice of the bar. If, as expected, it does its job well, its procedure may well become standard throughout...
...grassy, wooded Trophy Point high above the Hudson at West Point one afternoon last week, the U. S. Military Academy's graduating class of 250 sat tense in full-dress uniform, rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...