Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the President issued his enlistment ban last December, an Army-Navy armistice seemed to have been finally reached, and the WMC talked glowingly of a single master plan for the colleges and an all-embracing, truly selective service. Today the Navy is again enlisting men under the guise of voluntary induction and the manpower clock has been turned back to Pearl Harbor days...
...Your story [TIME, Feb. 8] on Russia's "Men of War": one of its stars is Master of the Don, Colonel General Rokossovsky-50 and a major in the Czarist Army. Ralph Parker, the New York Timesman in Moscow . . . reported on Feb. 1 that Rokossovsky is 38. This would make spectacular Konstantin a major at 9 and a Red Army fighter...
Franklin Roosevelt, master of almost a thousand press conferences, had the air of an indulgent uncle introducing a beautiful niece. Madame Chiang, he said, was a "special envoy very different from most"; he asked newsmen to confine their questions to the "non-catch type...
Professor deHaas' broadcast is the fourth in the current series. C. H. Haring. Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, and Master of Dunster House will talk next week in the same series on "The United Nations Brazil...
...Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond is not 167 years old, but the oldest generals cannot remember when the Marines' famed mortar expert was not somewhere around. Lou Diamond's age is a secret between him and his service-record book, but his friends remember his pitching a one-hit game for the Quantico Marines many years ago, when he must have been at least 50. He rested on that feat, never pitched again...