Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's Admiral Ernest Joseph King and the Army's General George Catlett Marshall knew that such a force would have assembled only for a major blow. The question was: Where? They had to apply what Admiral King last week called his doctrine of "calculated risk," placing the bulk of what they had where the Jap seemed most likely to strike, where the U.S. stood to win or lose the most. They calculated the risks and chose Midway. They put their own forces on the move. Then they waited. On June 3, at 9 a.m., P.W.T., the waiting...
This kind of thing, decided COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King last week, has got to stop. By his order, the number of typewriters, mimeograph and multigraph machines throughout the Navy's operating forces will be cut 50%. By this simple expedient, the Admiral believes, men afloat will have more time to fight, or get ready for fighting...
...exhibition this week in the Fogg Art Museum is one of the most valuable and beautiful collections of Chinese jades, porcelains, crystals and pottery over gathered, the gift of the late Ernest B. Dane, and Mrs. Dane, of Brookline...
...collection was given to the University prier to Mr. Dane's death in April, it being his desire that the fifth be associated with the 50th reunion of the Class of 1892, of which he was a member. It will be known as the Ernest B. Dane and Helen Pratt Dane Collection...
Three cadets were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Army of the United States. They are Walther Barry, of Dorchester, Mass.; Ernest A. Jonkinson, of Sioux City, la.; and Robert W. Ryan, of Brookline, Mass...