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...Sergeant-Major...
Last week the R. A. F. upgrading reached the enlisted ranks. Prouder than any air marshal were the sergeant majors, highest ranking non-commissioned officers, heretofore "one step removed from a gentleman." Henceforth the sergeant major is a warrant officer, to be "addressed by airmen as 'sir' and to be referred to as 'mister...
...Martin John Insull, gaunt, long-nosed brother of Athenian Samuel Insull, was persuaded to leave his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. last week and journey 86 mi. south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...
When Labor representatives outdoing one another as 30-hour week advocates began to wrangle among themselves as to whether or not they were Communists, Senator Black threatened to call a sergeant-at-arms to keep peace in the turbulent committee room...
Oscar Winheld was taken away and placed in a cell. The desk sergeant told him not to worry about it. A guard came by and said, "Don't worry, you'll probably get off with a suspended sentence or a light fine tomorrow." When the guard came back later he found his prisoner had hanged himself to the crossbar of the cell door with his belt. Policemen who searched Oscar Winheld's home to see if he really did have some money, found none. Some of them figured that the Depression had killed Oscar Winheld...