Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAFS' second graduation. When the last diploma was handed out, the new pilots became members of the Army Air Transport Command, by next afternoon were fanning out to ferrying bases at Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Romulus, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. There they joined up with other WAFS already delivering aircraft from factories to Army tactical bases...
...Home Study Council set up after a Carnegie Corporation survey in 1926. Director is the man who made the survey, John Samuel Noffsinger. The Council standardizes practices, investigates frauds, cooperates with the Federal Trade Commission (correspondence teaching is interstate commerce), improves teaching methods. Since the Council started, about 17 diploma mills have been shut down, as many as 13 fraudulent schoolmasters have been in jail at one time, and the fantastic profits of phony schools have largely been squeezed...
...assignments since they are not in supply corps work, but in industrial fields. Nevertheless, some of the men who are called up April 5 will be able to get their degrees if their records are satisfactory. This possibility was opened, when the Business School administration voted to give a diploma to any student who started the 12 month course last June and will stay until April...
Lieutenant Colonel Harold J. Smith, former commander of the Second Statistical Control Unit of Spokane, Washington, was presented with an honorary diploma by Major John F. Heffin, Commander of the Statistical School. Lieutenant Colonel Smith leaves Boston soon to begin work with the Air Force in Europe. Professor Edmund T. Learned, professor of Marketing at the Harvard School of Business awarded a coat of arms of Colonel Davison...
...with a high-school diploma and the proper physical requirements, the Navy and Marines offer several years of liberal education and a sure chance to train for a commission. To these same men the Army offers only the draft and a limited chance for short technical courses or officer candidate training. Where the vast majority of the best officer material will go is only too obvious, and equally so is the effect of the discrepancy of programs on the achievement of a well-balanced American fighting force...