Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military attache in the U.S. consulate in Belgrade in 1919 before becoming European correspondent for the New York Evening Post. Then, in 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of Manhattan financiers, lawyers and businessmen, started Foreign Affairs on the conviction that isolationism had died with the last doughboy. The council figured that intelligent U.S. citizens would be interested in an intelligent look at the world around them. Foreign Correspondent Armstrong was hired as managing editor of the quarterly's two-man staff. (The other staffer was editor and onetime Harvard history professor Archibald Cary Coolidge.) From...
...frustrated military career. Back in 1918, His Eminence, then working on the archdiocesan newspaper in Boston, exuberantly bought naval chaplain's regalia only to be rejected by the Navy because he was too short. Back to the store went a determined Father Spellman to be fitted out in doughboy drab-whereupon he was foiled again by an archiepiscopal order freezing him in his Boston job. "I still visit the troops each Christmas," concluded the longtime military vicar to Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces, "because of my 1918 inferiority complex...
...World War II G.I. averaged 1½ in. taller and 15 lbs. heavier than the World War I doughboy...
...protest, as they did in the pre-World War II days; but the real complaint is the U.S. Army's archaic training course on campus. While wags deride the jazzy new forest-green uniform ("Robin Hood's Men"), those who wear it resent long hours of playing doughboy with World War I machine guns. Last week dissidents were stirring up many a state university campus. Samples...