Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt made a point of sleeping through Herr Hitler's speech at 6 a. m. E. S. T. So far as he was concerned, Hitler was "stopped" for the time being and the President of the U. S. was busy at home. He had a World's Fair to open, visiting royalty to entertain...
Army mores have changed profoundly since Wood's time, and particularly since Malin Craig became Chief of Staff. Indeed, the contest for his place demolished the tradition that only West Pointers can get big Army jobs. West Point produced not one of the three officers who were seriously considered. By President McKinley's dispensation Hugh Drum went directly into the Army as a second lieutenant at 18-because his Army father was killed at San Juan. And the third man considered-Major General DeWitt, who now commands the War College-enlisted in the war against Spain...
George Marshall also began as a private (in 1902). But he had graduated from Virginia Military Institute, which in the Army is next best to West Point (or birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George Marshall was born on the last day of 1880; his great-great-grand uncle was John Marshall, greatest U. S. Chief Justice. Soldier Marshall was a mere first lieutenant in 1916. During the World War he got a temporary colonelcy, a chance to demonstrate his brilliance at staff direction, finally...
...crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines of communication to the point where he had become easy Confederate prey...
...also to show how he gained riches. In the first assignment, all is reasonably smooth sailing. Aided by Loretta Young, Don Ameche gives a fairly convincing life portrait of Bell in his rise from a cold attic to the court of Queen Victoria. This might seem the logical point at which to call quits, but RKO is adamant and refuses to halt here. Instead, the picture embarks on a long dull explanation to prove that genius is rewarded in gold, as well as in renown. The old court room scene is hauled in--this time, of all things, because...