Word: naval
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...number of visitors and routine chores (including some 200 signatures a day) that drain presidential time and energy away from the task of setting and steering the nation's course. He has succeeded in snipping away a little red tape (e.g., he shifted to the Chief of Naval Operations the chore of signing naval-officer assignment papers), but every now & then a presidential aide will hear him bark like a drill sergeant: "Why do I have to do this...
...continued MacArthur, could he thereafter sell Washington his program of carrying the war to Red China by aerial bombardment, naval blockade, and the use of Chinese Nationalist troops...
...defeated State Teachers earlier this month at Soldiers Field by a 6 to 1 count. The team lost its only other game, by the same score, to Quonset Naval Base...
...Bill thirsted for action and got none. He flew seaplanes-lumbering Catalinas-from Australia but much of the time he waited for airplanes that did not arrive or would not fly. At last his frustration stirred up stomach ulcers, and he was shipped back to Treasure Island Naval Hospital near San Francisco...
...Ensign Bridgeman wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, beginning "Dear Franklin . . ." and demanded transfer to an active job. He told his secret to an admiral's wife who did welfare work in the hospital. She turned white and ran to the commanding admiral of the San Francisco Naval District. In old-line Navy custom, such conduct by an ensign was almost as shocking as mutiny...