Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mature Youthfulness. At 46 (on Jan. 24), Hoyt Vandenberg is typical of many top-rank U.S. airmen. He combines the energy of an athlete with mature judgment. He is dead serious and fluent about anything having to do with aviation, reasonably interested in such lesser matters as golf (low 80s), tennis, gin rummy, Scotch highballs and good panatelas. Like most airmen of top rank, he has spent all his Army career learning and unlearning about air operations...
...most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece (aunt by marriage of King George...
...only Franklin Roosevelt can change it, since the formula is part of a presidential directive. But union labor, having helped re-elect Franklin Roosevelt just three weeks ago, is as yet unwilling to train its oratorical guns on him. At the C.I.O. convention, Phil Murray concentrated on lesser fry, primarily WLBster George Taylor, who devised Little Steel. Said Murray: "We have been aware of your machinations." Mend your ways or "resign your...
...election settled a number of lesser issues all over the U.S. - at least temporarily...
...German friendship, would be deceived by the tactic. Nor could it greatly affect the military situation in Poland. But responsibility for the fact that at this late day in the war the Germans could still make use of such a tactic lay squarely with Moscow-and, to a lesser extent, with the U.S. and Britain...