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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senses of the audience are dulled into unresponsive drowsiness. There is too much DcMillcan grandeur, too little DcMillcan zip. "Brigham Young" starts out as a fairly interesting document, but loses most by its entertainment value through its exasperating length and its unforgiveable failure to picture polygamy in more detail...
Although the program of the Chapter will not be worked out in detail until after the organizational meeting on Friday, present plans call for voluntary drills at which students will have an opportunity to learn the rudiments of military training...
...System owes much of its precision and detail to onetime (World War I) Draft Administrator Hugh S. Johnson (who is not bashful about taking due credit in his daily column). Its present spark plug is tawny-haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1709, Lieut. Colonel Hershey has specialized on Army conscription plans since 1926. His technical superior on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee is the Navy's Lieut. Commander Benjamin Stacey Killmaster. But the Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave...
This week, at a quiet sheriff's sale in Philadelphia where the new company was the only bidder, the oldest shipyard in America changed hands. With many a minor financial detail yet to be unraveled, the clangor of riveting tools on the Delaware was still weeks away. But Cramp's already had a firm Navy promise for $100,000,000 in orders for cruisers...
This week those eight-and possibly more which were thought to have been transferred at sea or at Bermuda-flew the Union Jack. Where were they going? What duties would be their detail? Their specifications (see p. 19) decided the answers to these questions. In a pinch they might be called on to do almost anything, but they were built for convoy service, and for convoy they were doubtless destined. If the Battle of Britain had become a war of attrition, they might have considerable influence on the outcome. Their principal service would be to relieve better British destroyers...