Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval building with the British Admiralty. At House hearings on the Big Navy Bill, this prompted talk of a secret alliance between England and the U. S. Last week. Franklin Roosevelt upped 54-year-old Captain Ingersoll to a rear admiralty. His job when confirmed by the Senate': command of the Sixth Cruiser Division, at San Pedro...
...service and the Army at large were better than at any time since 1935, when GHQ A. F. was established as a compromise between those who wanted an entirely separate air force and those who wanted to keep the Army's wings tied securely to the ground command. But the entente was not sufficiently strong to withstand a barrage of one-sided and slightly inaccurate publicity calculated to exalt airmen above groundmen. Having paid his respects to diplomacy, the General then proceeded to get on with...
Returning to Japan from his naval command in Chinese waters, Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, whom the confident Japanese expected to announce new victories, tersely remarked: "The war is only half over...
...Catholic orders such as Jesuits and Dominicans are considerably more leftist than in the U. S., and where no less a prelate than Cardinal Verdier has advised Catholics not to take sides in the Spanish War. At a recent General Congregation in Rome-the first meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General...
...LIFE-Paul de Kruif- Ear court, Brace ($3). Front-line description of the latest developments in the war against maternal mortality, tuberculosis, syphilis, infantile paralysis. Strategist as well as war correspondent. Author de Kruif fears the battle will be lost (fine armaments, men and sulfanilamide notwithstanding) without a unified command, universal draft, merciless war on the enemy within-poverty and commercialism...