Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also the Action Committees are certainly not so grue-some as they are described by the Western press. In the Central Action Committee sits also the Dean of our Faculty, Dr. Jan Kozak, Dr. Hromadka, the head of the Czech Brethren Church, and many other non-communists. In our faculty three professors and five docents were put on the retired list. None of really high standard or known to you. Also some few students--seven--were expelled. The English department is untouched. All the decisions of the Action Committee will be verified once more . . . I think even in this respect...
...pitch on the baseball team, became a gregarious member of a club named La Junta (later Sigma Phi). After law school and three years of private practice in Oakland, he jumped into World War I as an infantry private at Camp Lewis, Wash. He was sent to the Central Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Waco, Tex., was a first lieutenant when the armistice was signed. After the war he got a job as clerk on the state legislature's judiciary committee. In 1938 he paid a tragic return visit to his home town. His father, who had turned...
After a poor start (he graduated close to the bottom of the West Point class of 1923), Vandenberg had forged a brilliant career. He was commander of the Ninth Air Force in World War II, head of Army's G-2 and later Director of Central Intelligence for all the armed forces. He was Deputy Commander of the A.A.F. before he succeeded Ira Eaker as Spaatz's vice chief of staff...
Author Clewes sets his scene in an unnamed central European country during the war. A scraggly group of eleven partisans lives quietly in an abandoned village, half an hour's walk from the town where a force of middle-aged German soldiers is stationed. No longer believing in anything except that mere existence is more important than any cause, the demoralized partisans have no intention of fighting any more...
Imprisonment and silencing of "a large number" of the faculty of Charles University in Prague by the new regime in Czechoslovakia led President Conant last Monday to take the drastic step of withdrawing the University's emissary to the 600th anniversary celebration of the central European institution...