Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Towers will become vice admiral, will be assistant chief of naval operations. The "scrambled eggs" (gold braid) on his cap will give him authority corresponding to that of Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Force Chief. Navy departmentation appears to be at an end. To Airman and Admiral Ernest J. King, both commander in chief and chief of naval operations, will come centralized authority. The plain fact apparent last week was that the Navy had stolen a march on critics who complained that it did not appreciate air power. The last Navy peacetime announcement said that 18 carriers were...
...Pettus Hobby, once told her: "Anyone with as many ideas as you have is bound to hit a good one now and then." As executive vice president and assistant editor of the Houston Post, she had so many good ideas on public relations that the Army's Colonel Ernest Dupuy asked her to head the Women's Division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. Since last August she has filled the job so ably that there was never much doubt she would get the WAAC post. And her new job came as no surprise...
...production job. Since most of the expansion was over, rationalization could begin-a grass-roots matter. There could be more subcontracting, a fuller use of existing plants, more local cooperation, less Washington red tape. A blueprint of the new decentralization was shown in the Detroit area last week. Ernest Kanzler, WPB's local headman, sent a deputy to Grand Haven, Mich., to meet with Ottawa County's small manufacturers and expound the gospel of subcontracting. There was the familiar talk about pooling for war work; there was the familiar plea that "the nation and the war effort...
Emphasizing the importance of the high command official communiques for an understanding of the war, Ernest von Hartz, cable editor for the Chicago Sun, yesterday called for detailed impartial facts in the newspapers of America. Von Hartz, currently attending meetings at the Institute on War Problems, said that "Washington is today the news capital of the nation," but pointed out that no complete understanding of the progress of the war could be gained without thorough attention to the high command communiques of all nations, which have so far proved extremely reliable...
John M. Alcorn, head usher, announced last night that the ushers would be Maxwell P. Aley, Thomas J. Ashton, Otto Bremer, James Conway, Jr., Don Crary, David Harrower, Allen M. Johnson, Robert Keahey, Leonard S. E. Langer, Robert S. Landau, David Levin, Ernest L. Levinger, Donor M. Lion, Arthur S. Littell, James E. McNulty, Jr., Arthur B. MeCormick, Jr., Melvin L. Milligan, H, Maurice M. Osborne, Jr., Francis Park man, Jr., Sidney O. Smith, Jr., John R. Thompson, Andrew H. Wright, and Joseph L. Yarlott...