Word: craig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadlocked after 17 ballots and seven hours of vote swapping, a special convention of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago last week failed to elect a successor to the late Bishop George Craig Stewart, postponed the election to Oct. 25. Commented the Living Church, High-Church Episcopal weekly: "It is difficult for the Holy Spirit to exercise effective guidance in the choice of a bishop when the clergy play politics instead of listening for His voice...
...Summerall fixed on 2,000,000 as the proper number for a wartime U. S. Army. His successor, General Douglas MacArthur, in 1931, quoting Washington's advice, upped the figure to 4,000,000, but talked unofficially of up to 10,000,000. When Chief of Staff Malin Craig (1935-39) took over, he decided the MacArthur conception was unpractically high...
First stage of the Craig plan...
Initial Protective Force of 400,000 Regulars and National Guardsmen, to be the first troops to do actual fighting. Still counting that there would be an interval of several months between a declaration of war and actual fighting, Craig planned to flesh out this force with 330,000 volunteers and conscripts, thus building up a Protective Mobilization Force of 730,000. It would carry on while enough replacements were being trained to raise the active total to 1,000,000 (possibly...
...windbag, the little Roman promptly named his challengers: Old-timers Tom my Armour, Harry Cooper, Billie Burke, Craig Wood, Jimmy Thomson, Al Watrous, Lawson Little and Newcomers Jim my Demaret, Ben Hogan, Ed Oliver...