Word: comms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before yesterday, the Navy had been unsure of the proper interpretation of the clause. But in Washington last night the Navy's candidate training director Comm. L. C. Heinz said he thought the Navy could now "start applying the clause now that the point of controversy has been cleared up." But Heinz was not sure what this application would mean...
Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...
...Comm Z, like other base forces which have sometimes outnumbered the forces in the front line, has grown fat with able-bodied personnel. "Courthouse" Lee has done some combing, but lightly; latterly he has demanded a hospitalized veteran for every man he gives up to the combat-training camps. Gasser's combing will be ruthless; his orders are stern and clear. When he gets through with Comm Z, the Army's rear-echelon establishments will be pretty well raked clean of all men fit for combat...
...pair of Dons, McNees and Royce, were seen "operating" in the Commodore Grill last Saturday--so they say. Word from Batt Comm Brocker says that the differences in atmosphere between the Hasty Pudding Club and Miss Inglis' headache are negligible. Fred "No relation to the Ale" Ballentine is rumored to have stumbled on something while renewing acquaintances at American Airlines recently. Gad, the luck of some people...
...RADAR--CO. A (COMM) OFFICERS' DANCE TONIGHT...