Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Observers concede colorful Candidate Hatfield little chance of a Senatorial nomination, but in a State which elects a song-&-biscuit man as Governor anything can happen. Says Candidate Hatfield of Governor O'Daniel (who may decide he wants the Senatorial nomination): "I think he's about out of biscuits."; Of Martin Dies (who definitely wants it): "Dies makes a fine speech but it's always the same one." "Commodore"; Hatfield's unvarying costume is a blue denim shirt, khaki pants, a three-gallon hat braided with bear grass...
...John Charles Hill Spurs," for Freshman making greatest progress in equitation, to Broaddus E. Robinson '44; for Sophomore, to Daniel Needham...
...October 1916 President Wilson appointed a Defense Advisory Commission headed by Daniel Willard, then and until last week president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (see p. 86). The white heat of necessity shriveled up the Council itself; the Advisory Commission became the real executive branch...
...Canal Zone is a place to be defended, as well as a base from which to direct air and naval operations over the Caribbean area. Commander of the Panama Canal Department is tall, resplendent Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis. He also heads the whole Caribbean Defense Command, which up to now has existed principally on paper. In December 1940, when the War Department was straining every nerve to put the Canal Zone on a war footing, General Van Voorhis had the following important order distributed: "New transportation is arriving in the Department covered with dull finish O.D. paint. In order...
Last week there was a small but hopeful sign that the U.S. Army might be on the way to getting tough-tough enough to face modern military competition. Major General Daniel Isom Sultan was ordered to command of the 38th (National Guard) Division at Camp Shelby, Miss. He was the first Regular Army officer in this emergency to replace the National Guard commander of a Guard division. He will not be the last. Of the 17 National Guard divisions which went to France with the A.E.F., only one (the 27th) had its original commander (Major General John...