Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another crony also got a cushy financial job. Brusque, grey Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., the President's Naval Aide, was nominated for a 14-year term on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...rousing Senator James K. Vardaman. He studied law at the University of Mississippi and Millsaps College, finally moved to St. Louis. There he was banker, lawyer and head of a shoe company. An artillery captain in World War I (not in Harry Truman's battery), he joined the Naval Reserve in 1939, was on Okinawa when the President called him home to be naval aide. Since then he has been a constant White House adviser...
Sixteen courses to be omitted are Naval Sciences 1, 2, 4, and 5; Anthropology 33, Geography 27a, History 48, Economics 12b and 63b, Chemistry 21b, English 120d, 240a, and 270b, Government 115 and 127, and Mineralogy...
...Nimitz is Admiral DeWitt C. ("Duke") Ramsey, 57, longtime naval aviator who is Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Under him are six deputy chiefs, all vice admirals: Forrest P. ("Fuzz") Sherman, 49 (operations); Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, 53 (administration); W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, 55 (special weapons); Louis E. Denfeld, 54 (personnel); Arthur W. Radford, 49 (air); William S. Farber, 60 (logistics), the only holdover...
...submersible in the world's navies obsolescent. It was the first true submarine: it went faster under water (25 knots) than on the surface (10 knots). It was able to overhaul any but the fastest surface ships and was capable of days-long submersion. Fortunately, this triumph of naval design came too late. When the war ended the only pilot model was on her trial...