Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollywood Insurrection. Agents of the U. S. Department of Justice, puttering dutifully about lurid Hollywood, Calif., discovered recently an armored truck in the garage of one Herbert Sandburn. Questioned, Mr. Sandburn volubly explained that a Mexican, Senor Benjamin Roqe, had commissioned him to equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began...
...Committee voted, however, 15 to 1-the U. S. abstaining and Germany voting contra, mundum- that "peacetime effectives" be understood not to mean "trained reservists" or war material to equip them, but to include "military forces under the colors, police, forest guards and any other such organization . . . available without measures of mobilization...
...educational history before him would doubtless look upon the use of any such section of the curriculum as an emergency measure adopted by a people that found itself the victim of a great confusion resulting from an unprecedentedly rapid accumulation of knowledge. It alone will not educate men or equip them for the mastery of modern life. I suggest, therefore, a second field of inquiry...
...Another matter which may well be considered in this connection is the suggestion that the Student Council should equip and maintain a summer camp of philanthropic nature for poor boys in Boston and the neighborhood. A committee consisting of Alexander Donald '27, chairman, Lawrence Coolidge '27, L. F. Daley '27, Austin Lamont '27, A. J. Cassatt '27 and C. G. T. Lundell '27, has been appointed to investigate the possibilities of such a plan. Upon the report of this committee to the Student Council, it may well decide whether or not to support the plan, and if this is decided...
...salaries. Not to test their knowledge, because all question concerning that has been satisfied upon a basis of grades, but to test their qualities of ingenuity and industry, of stamina and adaptability. A university graduate may feel that he has a right to expect of his university that it equip him to step at once into a profitable position, but this view over-looks the contraption, necessary to any successful career, which the individual alone can make...