Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle was not over, by a long shot. The Navy has good and potent friends in Congress-particularly David I. Walsh in the Senate and Carl Vinson in the House. There is little chance that a bill can be reported out in time for a vote at this session; it will be early January before it reaches the floor. Much can happen before then...
Army's Ball. The Army, all out for merger, had kept the ball. All week, before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, the Army's best backs plunged down the field. Tough, sardonic Air General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance of air power in the "airpower age." Said General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower: "Unless we have unity of direction in Washington through the years of peace that lie ahead we may enter another . . . Pearl Harbor...
...Civil Affairs Training School in Cambridge took much of the time of Merle Fainsod, associate professor of Government, and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government. CATS was established exclusively for training occupation forces...
Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland's aging (78) President, left Helsinki for points west and south. Officially, he was traveling for his health (he is asthmatic). Unofficially, the veteran soldier and inveterate foe of Soviet Russia was said to be avoiding his country's "War Responsibles" trial...
Heavenly Day. In Gering, Neb., Carl Honey married Velda Angel...