Word: craig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December Representative Blanton of Texas wrote Secretary of War Dern asking to have Generals Brown, Drum, Malone and Hagood testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee, and requesting that they be not restrained by the War Department from making full and frank answers. General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, replied that the officers named "will be instructed by me in person that they are to answer you freely, fully and frankly...
...memorandum from the Chief-of-staff, General Craig, to the Secretary of War, is clear and succinct in its condemnation of Hagood for having overstepped his duties as an army officer and public servant. Craig commends his subordinate's professional efficiency and brilliant intellect, but calls his remarks before the House Appropriations subcommittee flippant and in direct breach of accepted army policy: which is that no political utterances should be made by an army officer. Hagood's statements, designedly or otherwise, brought criticism and ridicule upon the army and his superiors, including the Commander-in-Chief, and are so much...
...public prints with characteristic acumen seized upon this case as juicy and slightly smelly news. Political nerves in general are so jumpy these days that any chance to sling a little mud is snapped up avidly. Consequently only by reading General Craig's memorandum is it possible to realize why Hagood should be punished, regardless of any political significance his case may have...
...been outrageously slandered for the last several years. TIME is the last place I would ever look for such an equanimous attitude, but having found it there I offer you sincere felicitations and a hope to find more often between your pages a like example of level-headed impartiality. CRAIG MITCHELL Princeton University Princeton...
...Collegiate, Playboy Joe Craig (Jack Oakie), his press-agent (Ned Sparks) and his right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether...