Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy officer for what he did or failed to do preceding the Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel would not get his day in court, which he has demanded. Major General Walter C. Short had been punished enough when he was removed, like Kimmel, from his command...
Last week Arthur Whitehouse and his big-eyed, ten-month-old daughter arrived in Philadelphia. On the 1,000-mile journey, Father Whitehouse had efficiently mixed and administered her formula. Geraldine Mary Whitehouse, the youngest passenger ever flown across the North Atlantic route by the Air Transport Command, exhibited a placid, healthy interest in her toes. Much less sure of himself, Father Whitehouse delayed seeing his wife, headed straight for his mother's three-room apartment. Startled, Mrs. Whitehouse Senior remarked "Well, I didn't expect this kind of Christmas present." Then she added...
Major General Claire Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...
...Again. Last week, as Virginians hotly argued over the State Supreme Court's invalidation of their soldier ballot act, cool Virginius Dabney celebrated the conclusion of his tenth year in command of the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page by harping gently on a familiar string. Since the poll tax is the nub of the soldier-vote question, why not-he suggested-use the projected constitutional convention to repeal the poll tax? Virginia's Bourbons, who pride themselves on the fact that the purpose of the poll tax is and always has been to limit the vote, shook their...
...Polish Government. It has three tasks: to protect the people, to record German crimes, to keep an administrative framework functioning in preparation for independence. Within the underground there is complete political freedom for each party to advocate its program. But the underground army is under supreme military command...