Word: corpse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Son James ("Jimmy's Got It") Roosevelt requested demotion from his rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, which he held as a White House aide; asked to be made a captain instead. Reason: the rank of lieutenant colonel was too high for his "age and experience...
With the prospect of almost nothing to do anyhow, the Foreign Office almost unanimously struck. The Cabinet was not impressed. Most of the diplomatic corps, including Ambassadors in London and Washington, protested. The Cabinet held firm. And so, last week, the 113 dissidents handed in their resignations.
In Washington, last week, Count Jerzy Potocki was still the accepted Ambassador of his refugee Government, was still credited with being the handsomest, and one of the ablest members of Washington's diplomatic corps.
But last week, after a bracing yachting trip on the Potomac with Associate Justices Felix Frankfurter and Harlan F. Stone, the President made an announcement which sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of...
Of France's 50,000 Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father...