Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two months of closed-door hearings, Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle's six-man investigating board delivered its report to the War Department on the cause & cure of the Army's "caste system." Its 53 pages and 10,000 words boiled down to a diagnosis which surprised no one: the roots of the disease were 1) poor leadership; 2) an excessive official and social gap between officers...
...masse. They demanded better pay, a cost-of-living bonus and equal status with other government employes. The Government, responsible for paying the King's help, promptly offered a 30-shilling increase, but the servants turned it down flat. Their bargaining position is strong-for months now toothy Lieut. Colonel, the Honorable Sir Piers Legh, Master of His Majesty's Household, has been scrabbling through London's employment agencies begging for men to fill his depleted staff. Said one agency last week: "The palace wages offered are rather below what many people are prepared to pay today...
...charge of the occupation is Lieut. Colonel Thurman A. Stout, whose briefing begins with an epoch several milleniums before Marx. In that dim past (so the legend goes), Cheju's founding fathers (Ko, Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in the earth to be joined presently by three Japanese women (who arrived by boat). As their offspring developed, a strange mutation occurred among the Kos, the Yangs and the Pus. The seaborne women settled down on the land while the earthborn men roamed the oceans and found other mates in foreign parts. The grass widows developed...
...Lieut. Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington swore out a warrant in San Diego for the lady friend he surprised last January by marrying another (TIME, Jan. 21). Lucy Rogers Malcolmson, charged the Marine ace, had stolen $9,340 he had sent her for the care of his children by his first wife (who married a newsboy last March). When the news reached Reno, Miss Malcolmson, who was preparing to become a landlady for marital transients, promptly disappeared. Six days later she was still missing...
...luscious as ever in her Adrian getups, is a loveless lady novelist who knows practically nothing about men. Wide-eyed, she boards a train for Hollywood to help in the filming of her smash bestseller. Who should turn up as fellow travelers but Marine Captain John Wayne and Lieut. Don DeFore...