Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting down with Forrestal and four members of the Canadian cabinet's defense committee were the chiefs of staff of Canada's armed services and General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, co-chairman of the Joint Defense Board set up under the Ogdensburg agreement. Top items for discussion: plans for Canada's industrial mobilization, the standardization of U.S. and Canadian arms, what to do about U.S. bases in Newfoundland when the "Oldest Colony" becomes the newest province. No hard & fast detailed decisions were made; the idea of the meeting was to keep defense cooperation firmly based on close...
...physics, he offered $5,000 for the best simple explanation of the law of relativity.* Last week, when his lawyers opened his will (he died last month at 90), they learned that Bachelor Eugene Higgins had left $40 million to four universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia) "for the general advancement of science through investigation, research, and experimentation...
Faith by Works. This week the council got down to specific discussion of its general theme, "Man's Disorder and God's Design." If the churches can pull well together, they may reduce the disorder and implement the design. In a speech for delivery at Amsterdam on Aug. 24, Presbyterian Layman (and Republican Statesman) John Foster Dulles put the problem...
Ordinarily, such complications merely confuse a movie. In this intelligent production they enrich the picture's general interest and sharpen the melodramatic suspense. Meredith's performance, his best in a long time, could carry the picture singlehanded ; Dulcie Gray is highly satisfactory as his clumsy, devoted wife; and the handsome but somewhat wooden Kieron Moore is effectively used. The picture, made in England by Fox, is well filmed and has a climactic scene high on a fire ladder which is an excellent piece of pure scare...
When the fit is on him, Author Allen writes with some economy and an eye for the telling detail. But in general, he lets his wagon ride cheerfully in all the worn ruts of narrative, less concerned with where he is going than with what can be seen along the way. Stern readers, for whom an adventure story is not enough, may well ask, "Is this trip necessary?" and for them the answer is no; but those who like historical atmosphere laid on thickly and with some skill will find it in Hervey Allen's latest...