Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, Generalissimo Chiang streamlined the command of his field forces, began to clean up the worst abuses of a chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell...
...Chinese Army. The only combat Americans in China were the men of Major General Claire Chennault's redoubtable Fourteenth Air Force; their coordination was a key factor. Then U.S. ground troops, under Major General Robert ("Uncle Bob") McClure, a Guadalcanal veteran, were organized in a network of liaison units running like a stiffening spine through selected Chinese divisions...
...Harvard Crimson Network will go off the air at the end of the term, officials of the Network announced last night, for the second time since its founding in 1940. New officers will be in charge when Station WHCN resumes activities at the beginning of the fall term...
...replaces Philip M. Stern '47 as President as the result of elections held Sunday evening. Stern, who will graduate on June 28, has held the position since February 9 of this year. Churchill, absent from the College this term, served for a short time after his election to the Network in August 1943 as Business Manager, and has been Technical Director since July...
Closing out Shepherd Hall broadcasting with two candidates hovering over two lone instruments in a bare room yesterday morning, members have spent the weekend completing the moving of radio apparatus. Aided by more and new soundproofing space, the Network is now technically equal or superior to most Boston stations...