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...Robinson's job was strictly a post-Pearl Harbor development. For 80-odd years the Navy's tiers of bureaus-Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, etc.-had functioned like little feudal states. Bureau chiefs were jealous, prerogative-minded, ensnarled in procedure. Many a Secretary of the Navy talked wistfully about simplifying the Navy, but nothing was done until Pearl Harbor rocked Frank Knox. The two-ocean Navy, due for completion in 1944, was needed in 1942. Panting for construction speed, Knox created a new Office of Procurement and Material...
...headlong horsewoman followed Bolivar into Peru, spent two years with him while he was liberating that country and Bolivia. More than once she saved his life, for more & more jealous political and military rivals plotted against him. One night, while Bolivar was sleeping, Manuela heard steps, barking dogs, "the thud of a body in the street," shouts of "Death to the tyrant!" She persuaded the Liberator to jump out the window. When the assassins broke in, she met them with a drawn sword, sent them in the wrong direction. Said Bolivar: "Today you have become the Libertadora of the Libertador...
Argentina's Policy. For reasons both psychological and geographical, Argentina has opposed U.S. policy consistently since Franklin Roosevelt gave the first diplomatic twist to the words Good Neighbor nine years ago come April. Argentina is nationalistic, European-minded, antagonistic to U.S.-or any other-leadership, jealous of its own leadership in the southern end of the hemisphere. Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú said just before the Conference last week: "This America of ours must be preserved for peace." Translated from the diplomatic, this meant that Argentina might oppose Mr. Welles's program...
Bolivia, acutely conscious of a highly strategic continental position, was the only South American nation to declare war against Japan. The January 1942 issue of FORTUNE tells why: "A buffer State among five mutually jealous nations that might be swept by political cross winds of the present war...Bolivia has all the characteristics of a fortress except arms. And a fleet of bombers, based upon the interior plateau, could dominate-if means could be found to supply them-every strategic point on the continent except the Panama Canal defense zone 2,000 miles to the north." Now top tin source...
...settle the jealous squabbles of the United Service Organizations and the Citizens Committee in charge of camp shows, a pious compromise has been temporarily worked out: an outfit called Camp Shows Inc. will foster plays; the Citizens Committee, vaudeville and musicals. Results: U.S.O. will give Camp Shows Inc. energetic Eddie Dowling and a $645,000 budget. Buzzing around the Caribbean bases last week was an Army planeload of Camp Shows talent: Funnymen Laurel & Hardy, Singer Jane Pickens, Actor John Garfield, Dancers Mitzi Mayfair and Ray Bolger. Producer Dowling expects to send Broadway hits, cast by George Abbott, Vinton Freedley, other...