Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor specialist," Reconversion Director John Roy Steelman, was plainly for appeasement. His crony, George Allen, the rolypoly RFC director, didn't want to be mad at anybody when the battle opened. But handsome, 39-year-old Attorney Clark Clifford, the President's counsel, ghostwriter and onetime naval aide, clamored to stand and fight. The Secretary of the Interior, huge J. A. ("Cap") Krug, agreed. So did Attorney General Tom Clark. So did the President...
...interdepartmental committee
under Assistant Attorney General Devitt ("Gus") Vanech, to devise rules
for keeping subversive or disloyal employes out of federal service.
¶Named a Republican small-businessman, William Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
There was a notable vacancy this week among the ghosts of Bushido warriors who circle endlessly above Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The AWOL god was Naval Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, who was racked up among the immortals 42 years ago when (supposedly) he lost his life in Admiral Heihachiro Togo's crippling attack on the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur...
...grounds alone. But any suspicion of his activities as fuzzy intellectualism was banished during the war when jutting-jawed, pragmatic military men beat a path to his Peabody House office, asking for aid. In one ease Richards and a small staff, in a whirl of activity, taught 1000 Chinese naval officers enough Basic English to operate a ship-in six weeks. Here he also made films with Disney for use in Armed Forces classes for illiterates...
Coming to Harvard in the Naval R.O.T.C. in 1945, Mariaschin swiftly won himself a varsity post, which he held throughout the year, secting action in every Crimson game last fall...