Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Williams continued to demand an independent air force and above all a unified Defense plan for all services, meantime asked by what right the Navy Department (which includes the Marine Corps) undertook to censor his civilian writings. For answer he got a weaseling memo, finding in one paragraph that as an inactive reservist he was not subject to control, in the next that by "custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps...
...York Times: "The time has come when, in the interest of self-protection, the American people should at once adopt a national system of universal, compulsory military training. We say this . . . because the logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Mr. Roosevelt said he liked the paragraph...
...Houses have monopolized athletic honors. At least four times in the past six years of competition, they have together held first and second place. And the reason? Simply spirit. "It's a brave man indeed--or a foolish one--who mentions 'spirit' here at Harvard," reads the opening paragraph of the first Kirkland House Year Book, "but when it's a question of Kirkland House, spirit with all its ghastly implications must be mentioned too. For spirit is what individualizes Kirkland...
...Through a regrettable error in proofing, the sense of Friday's editorial, "Credimus", was changed. The final paragraph should have read as follows...
...morning last week the foregoing paragraph led the decorous letters column of the New York Times. Signer: Dr. Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The Times in its news columns further quoted 82-year-old Dr. Church to the effect that 1) he was not joking; 2) his plan had been seriously proed-&-conned for three months in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club (coal, steel millionaires); 3) the offer had the backing of 50 citizens who could and would put up the cash; 4) he thinks his plan can work; 5) his backers doubt...