Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Debate Council defeated the United States Naval Academy in a home debate last night. The Crimson debaters defended the negative of "Resolved: That basic non-agricultural industries in the United States should be nationalized...
Although practically no places are open now for upperclassmen in the NROTC, opportunities in the naval reserve are almost unlimited, said Lieutenant Commander William Hogan, of the Boston Office of Officer Procurement. Hogan added that the expanding naval air program needs...
...minutes after walking into the "Little White House" at Key West's Naval Station, he went to work. With a flourish he signed the bill repealing federal taxes on oleomargarine-one of the Administration's few legislative successes of the year-and tackled a stack of documents which had been flown down from Washington. It was the first of a series of chores he had set for his three-week vacation; he proposed to keep in telephone contact with congressional leaders, to chip away at regular paper work, and to plan 1950 campaign strategy...
...Navy seemed unable to silence truculent Captain John G. Crommelin, but it could at least slow him down. Airman Crommelin, told to stop denouncing unification and the "Prussian-minded" Department of Defense, had disobeyed. Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman ordered him placed on indefinite furlough at half pay, beginning next month. The order, by stripping Crommelin of his flight pay and allowances, will reduce his monthly paycheck from $1,041.75 to $334.87. Obviously the Navy hoped Crommelin would take the hint and leave active service: he was eligible to retire at $452.08 a month, based...
...Arthur Rank's London Films Company has made another first-rate movie. It transforms to the screen Terence Rattigan's successful play about the fight to clear the Winslow boy of unjust forgery and robbery charges which led to expulsion from the Admiralty Naval College...