Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediate objective of the G.O.P. high command is to capture control of the House and perhaps even of the Senate next year. Realistic GOPsters admit that in this battle the state of the U.S. economy will play an important part-i.e., if the U.S. is in a slump or a state of confusion either because of or in spite of the Truman Administration, the job of winning will be that much easier. Their ultimate objective is, of course, 1948. And there the G.O.P.'s great hope is that for the first time in 16 years...
...compromise was reached, says a member of the Spec staff, by which Smith was appointed Navy censor of all "Sea Breeze" material. Wellings achieved his end: Navy material would be censored. Smith remained in command on Spectator...
Whatever the label, Congress was faced with a hard choice. Few Congressmen relish the responsibility of leaving any stone unturned in the quest for U.S. security. Yet there are a few dissenters even in the high command of the Army, Air Forces and Navy (e.g., Admiral Nimitz) who question the effectiveness of a year's peacetime training, however arduous...
Last week The Manatee was published. The critics fell on it like harpooners. Groaned the N.Y. Times: "All the faults of the born non-storyteller are here in heaping measure. . . ." Said the N.Y. Sun: ". . . no order, no command over her material, no style . . . Miss Bruff has run away from too many schools...
...been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that at one point held him "streamlined horizontally...