Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the Capitol and up & down the three vast office buildings, plans were laid for the first session of the 77th Congress. Main piece of business was to get rid of Session III of the 76th, which still dragged its wounded length along. This session had sat almost as long as any Congress, had approved more peacetime appropriations: $23,135,740,635,15. (Even the 23-odd billions did not include long-range commitments of $4,000,000,000 for the two-ocean Navy...
...Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America and colonel in the Signal Corps; Camoufleur Homer Schiff Saint Gaudens, lieut. colonel in the Corps of Engineers; Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille, major in the Signal Corps; U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., captain of Cavalry; Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III...
London was not entirely spared, however. In one raid 3OO-year-old Kensington Palace, where British monarchs from William III down through the German Georges lived, where Queen Victoria and Queen Mary were born, was damaged...
...things, have advantages over mechanical, driven armies. Tiny Greek citizen armies defeated huge Persian armies of slaves. The unarmored English longbowmen of Crecy and Agincourt beat the armored French knights who were "their liege lord's men." Washington's burning militia trounced the paid Hessians of George III. "Cromwell's New Model Army," said Wintringham, "is still the best model for British fighting men." But can a People's Army stop modern motorcycle troops, whose guns can cut a man in half in two seconds at 100 yards, planes with their nerve-raveling noises? Wintringham thinks...
...great question mark in the Roosevelt Term III Administration was William Orville Douglas, for the last 19 months a Supreme Court Justice, but still eager for more active duty. Some Janizaries predicted that Justice Douglas would eventually be either Secretary of State or Chairman of the Defense Commission. He had given the President valiant aid in the campaign, in ideas and memoranda for the six speeches, and was still a chief figure in the palace politics of the inner circle. All agreed that he would not remain for life on the Court...