Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the French and the British, the U.S. Army was a long time coming to real mechanization. In 1928 a one-sentence memorandum from Chief of Staff Charles P. Summerall gave Adna Chaffee authority to organize the Army's first, feeble Experimental Mechanized Force. Congress was even slower: funds...
But these honors gave him scarcely enough money to live on. Although in Vienna he had treated 3,000 patients a year, poor as well as rich, he had to apply for a license to practice in New York. Twice the Board of Regents refused him a license, insisted that...
> Only the urgent pleas of King Christian X, whom everybody loves, have hitherto prevented full-blast sabotage. The cowed Government of huge, old, Moses-bearded Premier Thorvald Stauning, who has been in office for twelve years, has sunk low in popular esteem.
"Any withholding of goods . . . needed for defense of the nation . . . is to be deplored. . . . Scant attention, however, has been paid to the dairy farmers' repeated pleas for emergency relief. The drought has cut the hay crop in half, and the recent rains . . . have spoiled much [of what remains]. Labor...
Mutual's General Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the...