Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned an attack on Russia, and to tell Western Europeans that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could win a war without the naval ships and planes to keep command of the seas and an army...
...Dennis' chief exploit of the Pink Decade was in the labor field. He made a Communist out of violent Harold Christoffel, an aggrieved electrical apprentice at Allis-Chalmers, manufacturers of industrial machinery. Christoffel married Ann Sabljak. Under Dennis' direction, Christoffel engineered a seizure of the State C.I.O. Council. With the help of a goon squad, Christoffel seized and dominated Allis-Chalmers' C.I.O. auto workers' union. In 1941 Dennis' work paid off. It was the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, when...
...butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought heroically for butter until he found that his constituents were growing the chief ingredients of margarine, upon which discovery he neatly reversed his field and became an oleo...
However, Cann is "not negotiating with Harvard--any more than I am with any other school." The Violet mentor is emphatic in stating that his relations with NYU officials and friendly and that his chief cause of dissatisfaction is the short contracts...
Radcliffe Student Council Monday unanimously appointed Student Government vice-president Sylvia Rice '50 editor-in-chief of the 1949-50 Red Book, a pocket guide to Annex activities...