Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the popular conception of a pitifully attenuated army, Malin Craig thinks his 163,800 enlisted men are just 16,200 less than enough. His prime concern is not over numbers but over equipment and organization. Major items in this new army's makeup...
...keeping with his prime tenet-that the General Staff should not find him a pliant Secretary-Louis Johnson takes an impish delight in upsetting army dogma and army officers. Though it is distinctly outside his province as Assistant Secretary, he once decided that too many enlisted men were serving as dog-robbers (officers' servants). A series of telegrams and cables querying every army post confirmed this conclusion, resulted in a marked reduction in the number on dog-duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels...
Rearguard Guards. Procurement for the peacetime armies and mobilization of industry to supply the war-time armies are the prime duties of the Assistant Secretary of War. While playing Secretary, Assistant Secretary Johnson has not neglected these duties. In fact, he has done a rapid, bang-up job. When he talks about the next war, Louis Johnson emphasizes: "The civilians will be fighting, too." Every U. S. citizen will be mobilized in some fashion. Heart of the War Department's plans for civilians is its Industrial Mobilization Plan, to throw U. S. industry into war-time gear with...
...England. For some time, Lord Baldwin has been expected to make a tour of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, to see about spending the $37,500 annual income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl has been in no hurry. On the day he ceased to be Prime Minister, he discarded formal morning suit, heavy gold watch chain, and stiff wing collar of Statesmanship, and retired into natty brown and grey suits with colored shirts and soft collars to match. Last week a local horticultural show was staged on the grounds of the Baldwin estate, and neighbors gathered, wondering...
Although Oscar Lewis calls his book The Big Four, his first chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated...