Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forming the front row in the reviewing stand will be John W. Farley '99, chairman of the committee; Captain George N. Barker, who is in charge of all naval personnel at Harvard; Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, Commandant of the First Naval District; and either University President James B. Conant or his representative...
...rank of commodore the Navy last week raised four captains commanding forces whose size warrants a flag officer but no admiral: Oscar Smith of Special Task Force No. 1; Lee Payne Johnson of the Atlantic Fleet's rear echelon; South Pacific Amphibious Force's transport commander, Lawrence F. Reifsnider; Robert Grimes Coman of the Southwest Pacific's Service Force. Like their Army counterparts, brigadier generals, commodores will wear one star. Like all task-force men, their chances of seeing action are never...
Bald, good-natured Rear Admiral Ralph Davison,' assistant to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, had got as far as Albuquerque (on an airline trip from Washington to Los Angeles) when a noncommissioned ferry pilot asked for a seat. Under the priority system (which Ralph Davison helped to devise) the sergeant could displace anybody but White House personnel. Admiral Davison stepped out, grinning, waited for the next plane...
...presided (1920) over the last meeting "of the remnants of the Progressive rear guard," worked as Illinois campaign manager for Hiram Johnson as Republican nominee for President ("he would have made a great President") and shuddered when Coolidge won. When Hoover came on the scene ("to me Hoover has always been - well, Hoover") Ickes voted for Al Smith...
Boston University finished with 55 and Tufts brought up the rear with 48. Individually, Sam Parkinson in the B division and Ralph Evans in the C group, both of M. I. T., were outstanding, each winning four races...