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...Army influence has always been suspect. Yet the sight of West Point on parade is always heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week. Chosen by the Tactical Officers last June to command the Corps of Cadets during his final year, First Cadet Captain Robert Evans ("Woody") Woods was not necessarily the brainiest (he was 605th at graduation), the most personable, nor the most popular member of his class. He was chosen because he best combined the qualities that West Point stands...
Seventeen year olds who will have finished their current college term by June 25 or who will have gained a high school diploma by that time are eligible as candidates and may appear before the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board at First Naval District headquarters, located at 150 Causeway Street in Boston...
Architect of this victory was General Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
Examinations for appointments as Cadet Midshipmen in the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and its academy at Kings Point, Long Island, will be held on the last Saturdays of May, September, and November, and on the last Wednesday of July, the War Shipping Administration has announced...
Archconservative, 59-year-old General Dutra was a thorough and frequent revolutionist until he connected with a successful insurrection. The Revolution of 1904 caught him up in its whirl even before he got through his cadet's training; consequently Brazilian officerdom speaks of him as a "Pescoqo de Sola" (Leatherneck)-a ranker. In the 1924 revolution, Dutra again fought the Government unsuccessfully. But he hit the jackpot in 1930 when he helped Vargas' "gauchos" ride into power. Since then he has been a staunch pillar of Brazil's neo-fascist "New State...