Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation has been inviting him into lucrative business. However he has continued in office, including an arduous two-month inspection of European Airways (TIME, Aug. 26) until the Chief had time to consider a successor...
With President Hoover he went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem...
...status of Secretary Good's three major current problems?Army economy, flood control, finding a new Chief of Engineers? was last week as follows...
With rates finished, the Finance Committee Republicans last week wrote the administrative features of the new bill. Chief changes...
...false and illegal petition of his brother, Walter Ludwig Dreyfuss, wax-paper manufacturer. The sculptor's friends asked for a jury trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was denied them. After three hours, the bewildered Dreyfuss, as his own chief witness, spoke of the time he was losing while he was incarcerated. In a calm, plaintive voice he said: "I am 49 years old. I can never regain these days I am losing. I harbor no ill will toward anyone and my only desire is to work and live at peace with...