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Tommy Crump was a sergeant in the Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1865 he enrolled in Seabury Divinity School in Faribault (pronounced Farribo), Minn., but a stoutly martial heart still beat beneath his cloth. Observing that the boys in the preparatory department of the Divinity School were undisciplined, Tommy Crump took to drilling them in the afternoons, using sticks as muskets, into the first cadet corps in any secondary school in the U. S. Minnesota's Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular...
Also in dispute was the kind of industrial army needed. Some educators favored an army of all-around mechanics; others, an army of specialists. The New York Daily News campaigned for an army of one million "sergeant-mechanics" to man a Nazi-style war machine...
...guard gets the passenger list over the telephone, reads out ten names. "Jews," says the sergeant, "Jews from all over." The guards try to halt the bus, but it careens past them up a hillside toward Palestine-and toward a dangerous cliff...
...Sergeant at Arms Vic McKenzie of Oregon has 100 assistants to help keep order, and 75 doorkeepers to keep out crashers...
...blondes. Brothels were closed; their staffs had fled. Bookies had shut up shop. Even bingo was outlawed. Tourist-camp proprietors conspicuously took the numbers of incoming automobiles, thus discouraging nocturnal disorder. Several city hirelings were fired, one because he had lived for years with a leading madam. A police sergeant on the vice squad was suspended, although he was a son-in-law of the chief of police...