Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shake Army airmen loose from Army groundlings, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell was harried out of the service in 1926. For all but setting up an independent air service last week, Major General Henry H. Arnold was handsomely rewarded. He became the first Chief of Air Corps vested with control over every phase of the corps's operations. Without any fanfare and with very little notice, a momentous change was thus made: the Army's flying force was turned over to flying...
...change deprived him of control of the General Headquarters Air Force. When that unit was established in 1935 as the Army's combat air force, it was placed outside the Air Corps proper. For a further check rein, its first commanding officer (Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews) was made directly responsible to the Chief of Staff. The GHQ Air Force now takes its place in the Air Corps and its new C. O. (Major General Delos CArleton Emmons) will be responsible to Henry Arnold alone...
...current arms program and the attempt to make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues...
Lash spoke for united action among the democracies against the tastiest nations. "Munich has taught little men that they must control the aggressors or they will perish...
...been for the past two academic years lecturer on Government during the first half of the year, and lecturer at Oxford University, England during the second half. While at Harvard he conducted a seminar on "Government Regulation of Industry; Some Post-War Experiments in European Industrial Control...