Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the old and inherently restricted Disabled American Veterans, the Legion's biggest competitor was another oldtimer - the Veterans of Foreign Wars, headed by Joseph M. Stack. V.F.W. had got the jump on everybody by recruiting over seas, now had 1,250,000 members (one million of them brand new) and two mil lion dollars in the bank. But it still wanted only men with foreign service, and it took no women. Its biggest attraction was an extravagant bonus plan to be pushed in Congress: $3 for each veteran's day of home service; $4 for each overseas...
...fill the overseas job left vacant by Eisenhower, the Army picked 62-year-old Air General Joseph T. McNarney, dour, black-browed Irishman who served most of the war as Marshall's deputy in Washington. To take Nimitz' place, the Navy picked Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, able, unspectacular commander of the famous Fifth Fleet. As Spruance stepped in, his spectacular alternate in the Pacific campaign-Admiral "Bull" Halsey, boss of the Third Fleet-hauled down his flag, remarked, "I deem it necessary for men of my age [63] to step aside," and walked ashore, headed for private life...
President Conant will head the list of important guests, while Joseph P. Kennedy '12, former ambassador to Great Britain, William J. Bingham '12, director of Athletics, and Coach Dick Harlow will also speak...
Right to Left. H. T. Webster insists that Milquetoast is a self-portrait. Short of perhaps Joseph Stalin, it would be difficult to think of any man who looks less like Milquetoast than his creator. Webster carries all of his 6 ft. 3 in. without either the cringing or the exaggerated erectness of the man who is uneasy in this world. His face is handsome, ruddy and unlined, his blue eyes are direct and uncomplicated...
When he was in the U.S. last summer, British Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank remarked: "I want to teach English women to look as well as American women." Last week he was busy on a deal to give the job to Hollywood's famed House of Westmore. Under the terms, Rank would make and distribute Westmore cosmetics in Britain. In return, the Westmores would do their best to make Britain's movie queens look just like Hollywood...