Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been on duty with the Army Recruiting Service for over two years recruiting aviation cadets for the Army Air Forces, and we have never had a poster that compares with James Montgomery Flagg's excellent "I Want You"-until last January when Mr. Stan Ekman of Chicago designed an Army aviation cadet poster, a picture of which I enclose...
Radio's shrill-voiced, incredible pundits, the Quiz Kids, last fortnight took the Army aviation cadet "screening" test, averaged a score of 101. Passing score: 80. Commented Van Dyke Tiers, 15: "Some of the math and physics problems I recognized from school before I was halfway through them." His score was 131, only 12 below the highest ever registered at the Chicago recruiting office...
Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...
Before he did so he put in three years at the University of Idaho in his home town, was quarterback of the football team, won a $2 prize in an oratory contest, was a major in the cadet corps...
...nickname he still carries: "Old Hookem." (On the gridiron, where he was cool and harddriving, the midshipmen used to shout: "Hook 'em, Ghormley! Hook 'em!") In the classroom he had an air of amused disinterest, but he wore on his blouse the gold star of the distinguished cadet, was graduated twelfth in his class...