Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cavalry. Fortnight ago MacArthur sent burly Major General Innis Palmer Swift and his 1st Cavalry Division into a surprise attack on Los Negros, in the center of the Bismarck Sea. Last week "Bull" Swift was able to sit down on Los Negros with a bottle of Japanese lemon pop in his big hand and tell how the job was done...
Successors. McNary's passing left two jobs to be filled: his Oregon seat, and most important, his minority leadership. In Oregon, -the Portland Oregonian's Palmer Hoyt was considered a strong choice. But Governor Earl Snell may pick an interim Senator so that he can run for the seat himself in November...
...this was a negative argument at best. More sense-making was the statement of Palmer Hoyt, recently resigned as domestic chief of OWI: "If we tell the story of Japanese bestiality frankly and boldly, and as a part of each day's news, as I trust we will begin to do, I think the Japanese will treat their captives better. With the war going against them, they will fear to do otherwise...
When Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt left OWI last week, he had faithfully kept his three promises of last June: 1) to serve as "a people's advocate" inside the Government; 2) to squeeze real news out of the war agencies instead of participating in the fancy hide-&-seek game of domestic "propaganda"; 3) to go home after six months...
...Beggar's Power. As Palmer Hoyt looked back at six months in Washington, he understood the structural sickness of OWI. Formally, the agency exercises the President's power to direct all other agencies' communications to the people. Actually, and particularly in its dealings with the military, OWI has the authority of a beggar asking alms. The reason: instead of being present at the military chiefs' daily reports to the President, and advising him on the spot what parts of the report should be instantly released, OWI's directors are at the mercy...