Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy, just getting around to its own postwar plans, is also likely to oppose another phase of Army planning. To cap the legislation it is after, the Army wants Congress to create a single department of national defense; the Navy is against...
...finished, nobody knew what to expect in terms of the box office. (Its first showings, according to Variety, were "modest" to "good" in Los Angeles, "standout" in Washington.) But however the film makes out financially, it is one of the pictures of the year, a feather in the cap of all concerned in its making. In the U.S., major productions have rarely dared to tackle so wholeheartedly so harshly human a subject...
Voice of Freedom. MacArthur sat upright in the stern of the barge. When it grounded in shoal water, he walked down the ramp and waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a microphone. To Filipinos his first words were the fulfillment of a promise: "This is the Voice of Freedom." That was how the last Corregidor radio programs began. Said Douglas MacArthur...
...been a good general then; now he was one of the great. Outwardly he was the same colorful, often theatrical soldier, visibly aged since December 1941, a little flabbier around the jowls and beltline, half bald, with a brushed-over lock of hair which he selfconsciously stroked when his cap was off. But his military stature had grown vastly. He still spoke sound military theory in rounded periods, full of historical allusions. But theory had now been backed by experience in a new kind...
...McIntire, said: "He was hit by the flu, and hard hit when he was sick recently, but he's right back in shape." Last week the President took things easy. Main news was his acceptance of the resignation of Donald Nelson as WPBoss, moved Acting Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug into the top post. Don Nelson, just back from China (TIME, Oct. 2), will stay in the official family in an as-yet-undefined job as the President's roving ambassador on postwar foreign trade. (In Chungking, Chinese smiled, talked of renaming their guest mansion "The House...