Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Classmate of Mine." Cadet Omar Bradley graduated No. 44 in the class of 164 men; Eisenhower, who roomed across the hall, was 61. Serious, shy Omar had only 19 demerits for his course, stood sixth in conduct; brilliant, gregarious Ike had 100, stood 125th...
...Eighth's News he jumped from the military into the political field. He roasted the U.S. for not imprisoning more Fascists in Italy, criticized the unchecked Italian profiteering, the kid-glove treatment of King Vittorio Emanuele. Last October Charlton's News attacked Mihailovich's conduct in Yugoslavia. Again Parliament seethed, later came around to switching sympathies (and supplies) to Communist Mar shal Tito...
...China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary to the teachings of the Three...
...ablest of China's three governmental mouthpieces-young Dr. P. H. Chang, who speaks for the cabinet. Dr. Chang blithely kissed off the controversy as a misunderstanding. A poor translation had made the regulations read as if the supervisors were "to guide and control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training a student had to receive before going abroad-that was simply to teach him "how to eat soup, not to put his knife in his mouth, or to put salt...
...world spacious, though the action itself is too crowded at times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct of an irresolute career diplomat, his retired liberal of a father-in-law, his bored wife who broke bread with fascist-minded bigwigs...