Word: duffel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coastline is easily "reachable" by* every power in Asia, the U. S. Army for years wanted to cast the Islands off. But few Army men were surprised when General Douglas MacArthur, ending a long and brilliant term as U. S. Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel and sailed to Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser (TIME, Sept. 30). General Mac Arthur's mission is to set up in the next two years a military establishment, costing 16,000,000 pesos ($8,000,000) and enrolling 19,000 men, which will try to keep the Philippine Republic...
...virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty sayings and an engaging incompetence when wrestling with a trick duffel bag. The audience is likely to take Faber's victims at just about Faber's low and careless appraisal, an effect which Authors Kaghan & Philips probably do not intend...
...Manuel Quezon on his last trip to Washington secured the services of the biggest military man in the U. S. ? General Douglas MacArthur. Last week, after the longest leadership of the U. S. Army in history, General MacArthur announced his resignation as Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel to sail for Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser...