Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General of the Air Force General Erhard Milch...
Result: the churches and Britain's Board of Education are now collaborating to draft an act making worship and religious instruction compulsory and providing a Government inspector of religious education (i.e., bringing religious teaching up to scratch...
...will then take these documents in person to the State Commissioner of Aviation at the Administration Building, East Boston Airport. After being checked here, the material will be submitted to the C.A.A. Inspector, also at East Boston. If approved, the man's license will be stamped with the word "reinstated," and he will then be permitted to fly at any time, provided that he can positively identify himself on each occasion that he wants to take up a plane...
...gangling boy when he arrived in Canada from his native Scotland in 1914, Donald Gordon was the Dominion's youngest (19) bank inspector six years later. In 1935 Graham Towers, Governor of the new Bank of Canada, picked him as its secretary; he became deputy governor at 37. Little known then outside banking circles, he set up the bank's smooth-working foreign-exchange control system, became a powerful figure in Canada's wartime economic councils...
...rare occasions when Tommy Hart talks about his career, he is apt to say that he has been lucky. Lucky or no, he moved up fast. He got his first command when he was in his late 205 (the destroyer Lawrence), became, after a stretch of sea duty, Inspector of Ordnance at the Newport, R.I. Naval Torpedo Station, executive officer of the U.S.S. Minnesota, commander of submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. In 1931 he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy, won a rear admiral's rank, the nickname "Turtleneck" and the gratitude of football fans...