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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successfully with the Western powers they must hire Westerners as teachers. German officers came to train the army, British and American sailors to train the navy, and a mixture of many nationals to teach foreign languages and sciences, to advise on administration and the conduct of foreign relations, "to assist in changing the nation from a confusion of medieval feudal baronies to a united modern state." Moore came to them with no special training beyond his 20 years as a newspaper correspondent in Europe and the East. "I am an authority on general information" he told his Jap employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Report from the Shadows | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Auxiliary Fire Department is under the direction of Walter F. Graves while the men are drawn from among the members of the Maintenance Department, nevertheless, it is possible that students might be called upoon to assist if an emergency arose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE COMPANY ALWAYS ALERT | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Next Tuesday the orchestra will assist in a concert by Putnam Aldrich, harpsichordist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra, Glee Club Enjoy Successful Summer Season | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Press must assist the people to govern themselves. And to do that, the Press must offer to the people of this country in the next few decades such an amount and such a quality of instruction in the facts and problems of public affairs as no people yet under the sun have been willing or able to receive. This will involve telling some very unpalatable facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Army medical man he had in Burma, a dentist named Captain (now Major) Donald M. O'Hara, and telegraphed Chungking to send down an abdominal surgeon trained at the Mayo Clinic, a Captain John Grindlay, to work with me. Grindlay, after having Koi, Kyang Lewi and Maru Bauk assist him at various particularly bad cases, adopted the whole crowd, and to this day tells everyone they are the best trained nurses he ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon in Burma | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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