Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With outraged vehemence, Secretary of War Harry Woodring retorted that Major Generall Moseley "was disappointed in his ambition to become Chief of Staff. . . . As to the reasons why General [Malin] Craig was preferred for the important post, I do not think anyone needs to look farther than to read General Moseley's flagrantly disloyal statement...
...remarkable document was in the tradition of Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell, who kicked the complacency out of the air service; of the Marines' General Smedley Butler, Navy's Rear Admiral William Sims, Army's Major General Johnson Hagood, who brought on premature retirement by his reference to "WPA stage money...
...most populous State of the Union, New York is the major U. S. political laboratory. Last week both major parties held State conventions there† and, in their nominations for the Governorship, set up a test of forces which may be this year's most accurate local gauge of 1940's national election...
...without limits, which were set as firmly as limits can be set in the Europe of 1938. If the crisis proved anything with finality, it proved that modern communication and enlightenment of the peoples reduce the chances of an outbreak of war. For the first time in history, a major conflict had been settled by talking instead of shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from...
Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...