Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years: "You are all damned lucky to get Admiral Leahy...
Germany's Major Bruno Brandi: "The future war will be a continuous sum of single catastrophes and collapses. An open war [i.e., not in trenches] will be aimed at by all means. Fighting . . . in extended war areas . . . will cause casualties in large spaces . . . high numbers." Major Brandi estimated that in brief, strongly resisted attacks, daily casualties per 100 fighting men would be as high as 15, in prolonged battle, five to seven for attackers, four to six for defenders; that 20% of the wounded would be gas cases (compared...
...gravest losses to the army and nation, the dead, missing and the prisoners, are irrelevant to the medical services." Major Brandi figured that of every 100 casualties in open warfare, 15 would be irrelevant dead, ten would be missing, 75 would be relevant wounded...
...called "group medicine" many major costs of medicine could be eliminated, he stated. Group medicine is the combination of several doctors, using the same hospitals and laboratories, and provides complete care to patients for a low yearly rate. "It doesn't necessitate Federal control," he explained...
...Dean's List men be assured of admission, they are contradicting their own position since their cry has been to admit the all-around man rather than the so-called "grind." The proposal to assure admission to all Group IV men who have engaged in three or more major activities is rather shallow because it leaves the road open for the dabbler--a man who puts his fingers into everything, but does nothing well...