Word: pelot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When The Citadel in 1922 moved into new $3,500,000 quarters in northwestern Charleston its enrollment began growing from a mere 350 to nearly 2,000. Its scholastic stature has also grown under the presidency of General Charles Pelot Summerall, who retired from the U.S. Army (he was Chief of Staff) in 1931. About 60% of The Citadel's cadets now come from outside South Carolina, but most are still Southerners, by no means wholly reconstructed...
...Chief of Staff Charles Pelot Summerall fixed on 2,000,000 as the proper number for a wartime U. S. Army. His successor, General Douglas MacArthur, in 1931, quoting Washington's advice, upped the figure to 4,000,000, but talked unofficially of up to 10,000,000. When Chief of Staff Malin Craig (1935-39) took over, he decided the MacArthur conception was unpractically high...