Word: archers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's other witness, General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, U.S.M.C., had his own argument: what would become of the Marine Corps and its esprit de corps under the merger? The Army had answered that in advance; it would go on operating as it always had, under the Navy and its Under Secretary...
...Romeo and Juliet, an innocent situation is all gummed up by the old folks-the feuding Archers and Pringles. The Archer boy (Scott Elliott), an Air Forces lieutenant, elopes with the Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest...
...Schoolboys. Forrestal unveiled for the first time a committee of businessmen who have been helping the Navy to unravel its problems. Committee heads are Thomas P. Archer, yachting enthusiast and vice president of General Motors; George Wheeler Wolf, Naval Academy graduate and president of U.S. Steel Export Co. The Archer-Wolf group surveyed the whole logistics field, functioned in the Navy Department as efficiency experts...
Major General Archer Lerch, USA, Provost General of the United States and National Director of the Civil Affairs Training School, will inspect the local units of that organization on Tuesday. Arriving in the morning from Washington, he will be greeted by Dean Buck and President Conant...
...three-star generals in Marine Corps history. The others: ex-Commandant (now Minister to South Africa) Thomas Holcomb, and present Commandant Alexander Archer Vandegrift. * At least three other Army divisions in the Pacific have had their commanders relieved in mid-battle: the 32nd (Buna), the 7th (Attu), the 43rd (New Georgia-the latter two by admirals...