Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early experience included work as dentist with the Grenfell Mission to Labrador in the summers of 1930 and 1938, and the post of attending dentist with the Heckscher Foundation for Children. During the war he served as a lieutenant commander stationed in the Third Naval District...
...same time hears its political leaders insist on the annexation, outright or by subterfuge, of the Pacific islands which were taken from the Japanese during and after the war. The latest of these utterances stems from a report on these islands by a House Naval Affairs subcommittee, in which statement not once did these Congressmen so much as allude to the trusteeship system, while even ignoring the United Nations as an interested body in its proposals. In population and area, these islands are indeed insignificant compared to the states now under the firm control of other major powers...
Died. Admiral Osami ("The Elephant") Nagano, 66, who, as Japan's Chief of the Naval General Staff in 1941, issued the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; while on trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal; in Tokyo. Said he of the Pearl Harbor attack: It "achieved far greater success than I had expected. . . . . I made no mistake...
...more than two courses in military science or naval science may be counted among the seven courses and then only with the approval of the committee. Mathematics C may not be counted for concentration, nor may more than one of the two available half-courses in the philosophy of science (Physics 15, Physics 16) be selected...
Over 200 experts in the fields of government, education, and industry, packing the first session of the conference heard Rear Admiral C. T. Joy, USN, pledge the availability of naval calculators to all scientists, in an opening address...