Word: directed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of National Defense would be instructed to: "establish common policies and common programs for the integrated operations of the three departments and . . . exercise control over and direct their common efforts to discharge their responsibility for national security...
...might have taken, were brought right into the peasants' houses. No servants would work for the Government collectors. Nobody would sell them food or give them water. Some property was, of course, confiscated and sold, but bidders were few. In all Bardoli not one rupee was collected in direct taxes...
...Other readers so moved should send their contributions direct to their local Red Cross (whither TIME has forwarded Reader Faller's check...
...commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct demobilization of the swollen Navy, serving as assistant chief of BuPers (Bureau of Naval Personnel). If past averages hold, he'll spend about three years as superintendent...
Justices Henry W. Edgerton and E. Barrett Prettyman said they found no doubt of Curley's guilt but that even if they saw any doubt they would not be justified in overturning the jury's verdict. They upheld the lower court's refusal to direct an acquittal, which was the principal point attacked in the appeal...