Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint order of the day, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung and Communist Cornmander in Chief Chu-teh said: "Advance boldly, resolutely, thoroughly; cleanly and completely annihilate all. . . in China who dare to resist...
...minutes the Amethyst's captain was mortally wounded; the ship's doctor and pharmacist's mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple...
...chief government agency in the drive for production is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp., set up in 1942 under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...
...Wold admitted that some of his information had come from Walter Trohan (TIME, Jan. 31), Washington bureau chief and topflight hatchetman of the Chicago Tribune. Under the Roosevelt barrage, Author Wold had retreated, according to Elliott, who quoted him as saying: "Much of the material in my book has been omitted, giving rise [in Look] to a completely false impression...
...picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson's script was as tasteless and untidy as his people's lives, it was just unpleasantly dull...