Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Flags. Pleased with the success of the Marshalls operation, Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt last week nominated Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance as a full admiral, Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner as a vice.
At Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded...
This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the...
But most of the wars between 1776 and 1941 were land wars or sea wars. World War I was quite definitely both, but mostly landlocked. Peace-minded Congresses (and most U.S. citizens) thought wishfully that the Navy could insure the U.S. against war. The "bluewater" U.S. Navy hoarded its thin...
The conference over, fair-minded correspondents agreed that the Governor had done quite well. He had kept his good humor, had not lost balance. They could not say as much for some of their snide colleagues.