Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called the ''Let's Get Our's" League? The veterans have been so successful in raiding the Treasury that I see no good reason why the rest of us common citizens shouldn't get our slice of the booty. We could wear a uniform similar to the Legion's, and this would be sufficient to provide the necessary excuse for our forays. Anyone not a Legionnaire would be eligible to join; and since this would mean some 100,000,000 people, we could all dive into the pork barrel with three big cheers...
Permit me, further, to point out that the attempt to disrupt our meeting was carried out with the connivance of University authorities. A rival meeting, unauthorized by the Regent, was given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...
...been training in Florida, California, Louisiana and Mississippi since early March, had started north, playing exhibition games on the way. The season was scheduled to begin April 16, at Washington, with President Roosevelt as a spectator. Major developments since the Giants won the World Series last autumn: a uniform ball for both leagues, like the one used by the American League; new managers for five of the 16 major-league teams...
...Blue Shirts. Last week President de Valera was trying to get the Senate to abolish the Blue Shirts and he still wanted to try General O'Duffy on charges of sedition and incitement to murder. When the conservatives of the Senate refused to pass a bill banning the uniform of the Blue Shirts, President de Valera angrily appealed to the Dail Eireann (House of Representatives) to abolish the Senate. Readily they obliged -with a bill which calls for the Senate's approval...
...argument for the reduction is that the people would buy more 10-cent cig- arettes and hence the internal revenues would increase. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee asked in a recent hearing why, if this were true, it would not be better to make a uniform reduction in taxes on all classes of cigarettes, since this would mean a lower price to the consumer. The defenders of the new principle have not given a satisfactory answer to that question...