Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's matériel chief, Rear Admiral C. H. Cotter, granted that such things had happened. Under Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall said isolated cases of wanton destruction were "unavoidable." The services made no secret, however, of their feeling that surplus property was a growing nuisance. Said Royall: "If anything, [the Army] is spending too much money and too many man-hours to protect property of doubtful value." And General MacArthur had already told Washington that if he could ship back surplus goods, he could demobilize men held overseas only to guard stockpiles...
...director will take orders from them and have no more than administrative power. To that job Harry Truman named quiet, 53-year-old Rear Admiral Sidney William Souers (rhymes with flowers), Naval Reservist, onetime Missouri businessman (life insurance, linen service, real estate, Piggly-Wiggly stores). Harry Truman knew him as an old friend. Businesslike Admiral Souers, who has had more active duty than most Reservists, is one of the few men to achieve flag rank without going to sea. For eight years he served as Senior Intelligence Officer in St. Louis. His latest Navy job: deputy chief of Naval Intelligence...
...victory in the Pacific had been the work of Japanese-Americans who had translated and analyzed thousands of captured Jap documents, crossed no man's land to talk Japs out of their caves, interviewed prisoners to get information. As their worth was proved, they had gradually advanced from rear-area assignments to the front lines, where they were in double jeopardy-from the enemy, and from fellow G.I.s who mistook them for the enemy. The Army Command is convinced that Japan could not have been defeated so quickly without the Nisei...
Across Quincy Street is the Union, which now houses the graduate dining hall, as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets for football games and other contests are obtained. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...
...four years and a month Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel had waited to tell his story of the Pearl Harbor disaster. Now he had his chance...