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...going to announce the names of the military men and civilian scientists who would sit in judgment on the results. But before 10 o'clock that morning a call went to the Navy Department from the White House. The President wanted the announcement delayed. He was going to appoint an all-civilian board...
...group of six men sitting around a table were told to discuss the chief problems confronting the U.S. after the war. At the end of half an hour, they were to appoint a chairman to summarize their conclusions. The vital questions: who would contribute the best ideas? Who would become the leaders as the discussion developed...
Outstanding among the airborne oldsters who were passed over was William F. Halsey, 63, who learned to fly at 52. But he was not overlooked. The Navy had been embarrassed a year ago when it got the right to appoint four fleet admirals: three were named at once, but Halsey and Admiral Spruance were tied for the fourth place, so neither got it. Last week, after announcing that he was retiring, Halsey got five stars...
...Republican Senator John Thomas, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles G. Gossett exercised a governor's well-used prerogative. Sturdy Charles Gossett, a well-to-do farmer whose political thinking plows a furrow well to the right of center, resigned his governorship and let his successor appoint him to the vacancy on Capitol Hill...
...bill made its points firmly: 1) the President would appoint and Congress would confirm the UNO delegate (probably earnest, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to whom the job has long been promised); 2) the delegate, with ambassadorial rank, would act only on presidential order, never on his own initiative; 3) the President would be empowered, through his delegate and without asking Congress, to send a limited number of U.S. troops anywhere...