Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naval airmen won a hollow triumph last week. A new, high-sounding job was created: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. Its occupant: Vice Admiral (upped from Rear Admiral) John Sidney McCain, 58, for ten months Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, for seven years a naval aviator, for all his career a "battleship admiral" at heart...
Likable, leathery "Slutsie" McCain is a good officer; in the Bureau of Aeronautics he has done a good job of supervising pilot training and the design and delivery of planes. He has listened to the argument of younger officers that unfettered air attack can blast the Jap out of the sea. Sometimes he has taken their advice. But airmen point out that McCain was 51 and 30 years a Navy man before he won his wings, and that he has held air commands only since 1936. Not even the appointment as new Chief of BuAer of Rear Admiral DeWitt...
...human heads. Next he taught them how to fight in the desert by ambushing a French army, practically annihilating it. Nobody learned the lesson better than Sublieutenant Bazaine, who was wounded, promoted to lieutenant. Later Bazaine learned to assume his famous poker face as head of France's Bureau arabe (military intelligence) at Tlemcen, Algeria...
According to word received by Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau here, the candidate must first join the Enlisted Reserve Corps, after which he must make application for the new training unit. To pass the ERC physical exam he must have 20/100 vision or better and have an active duty physique...
...Workshop is sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education, who have underwritten a number of scholarships to the Workshop, but otherwise have nothing else to do with the functioning of the group. The policy and procedure are determined by the University and the School of Education...