Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Vargas smoothly and speedily arranged the detail of being elected President of Brazil constitutionally. All but 73 of the 248 Deputies of the Constituent Assembly gave their well-drilled votes to Dr. Vargas who comes from the livestock State of Rio Grande do Sul. As he expected...
Thus last week did the special committee investigating the Army Air Corps sum up its conclusions based on three months of closed hearings in which 105 military, naval and civilian aviation experts appeared as witnesses. The twelve-man committee, headed by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, published its...
Lone dissenter was James H. Doolittle, onetime Army Air Corps major, who in a one-man minority report wrote: "I am convinced that the required air force can be more rapidly organized, equipped and trained if it is completely separated from the Army and developed as an entirely separate arm...
Of the Air Corps' present strength: "The existing strength in personnel and airplanes is inadequate to meet the Army requirements of the national defense. There is faulty distribution and utilization of existing airplanes in that an undue proportion are rendered unavailable for combat training and fighting purposes."
11) The secret study by Newton Diehl Baker's board of the Army Air Corps and its shortcomings in flying the mail. Last week the Baker Committee finally approved its report, held it for publication this week.