Word: marr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
...last week, Donald Marr Nelson fired one of his Vice Chairmen-square-jawed Ferdinand Eberstadt, spunky champion of the Army's theory that WPB must stick to materials control, thus indirectly control production. To another Vice Chairman, hornyhanded, hard-working Charles E. Wilson, chief advocate of the right of civilian review of all war production, Nelson virtually relinquished full powers...
Production Boss Donald Marr Nelson's "get tough" policy had landed him in a cyclone center. Good-natured Donald Nelson had brought some really tough men into the high councils of his War Production Board (TIME, Sept. 28). Now he found that they were much tougher than he-and hell was on the verge of popping...
...side was stolid, peaceable WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson, who holds the big civilian job of the war. On the other was slim, stern, impatient Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who runs the Army's biggest show as Chief of the Services of Supply. They fought without personal rancor but with no holds barred, to determine whether Army or civilians should have last say on U.S. war production...
...twins born to Adam Emory Albright in 1897. Adam painted pictures as cheerful and innocent as Ivan's are gruesome. Adam named Ivan after the great landscape painter, Claude Lorraine, twin Malvin Marr after Carl Marr. Brother Lisle Murillo went into business, but Ivan and Malvin, used as models for the senior Albright's sentimental pictures of childhood, reacted by staying with art in a grim...