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...design of Princeton's college button is changed. It is now a tiger head with Princeton engraved upon the collar. (Feb.2...
...Princeton button has been designed. It is a tiger head with "Princeton" engraved on the cuff...
...Army, Lieut. General Gerardus J. Berenschot. Hein ter Poorten's beefy, weather-beaten face was impassive, his great 220-lb. body vastly immobile as he heard the message: "Het is Zoover"-This is it. With the economy of movement characteristic of great bodies, he hung up, pushed a button on his desk. N.E.I.'s well-concerted war plans went into action...
...many days must pass before we see surprises of a military nature. . . . Despite the . . . Russian winter . . . there exists for Germany another theater of war, in North Africa." Said London's well-informed Spanish News Letter: "Spain must come into the war. . . . All that remains is for the button to be pushed...
With Roosevelt II the Colonel really hit his stride. Nor was he concerned when he was caught in outright manufacture of anti-Roosevelt shockers. A Tribune story in 1936 showed a ragpicker in a gutter scooping up Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times...