Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally believed." As long as the pilot had a good brain to start with, and his interest in his job continues, no "significant adverse trends in mental performance" should be expected up to 55 or 60. As a "morale builder" for older fliers, he suggested creating the job of "command pilot" on larger planes; command pilots would not have to meet active pilots' strict physical standards...
...constitution increases this danger, Bender says. He adds that "the Council suffers at present from a considerable degree of indifference, misunderstanding or even open hostility from the student body, so that it does not command all the respect it should have. The policy of the CRIMSON has not been helpful in this respect...
Last week, the R.C.A.F. announced that Air Vice Marshal Kenneth M. Guthrie, an oldster of 49, was retiring from the service. To replace him as boss of the North West Command it named Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lester Campbell...
...Governor" (as his staffers call him) keeps a sharp eye on his other papers, the Springfield (Ohio) News and Sun, the Atlanta Journal, the Miami News, and his three radio stations. His efficient, reticent son, James Jr., 45, is second in command. The Governor does most of his editorial direction from his Dayton home, dictates an occasional editorial on world affairs and reads every word in all the Cox papers. Says Publisher Cox: "I reserve the right to complain...
These men are officers of the University Police Force, under the command of Chief Alvin R. Randall. They have been locking the same gates in the same way year after year; only a blizzard or a fire interfered with their duty. And year after year students quietly walked four blocks out of their way every time they wanted to pass through the south margin of the Yard after dark. The great circle route became a habit; it was well on its way toward tradition...