Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advocated a system "which will permit the mobilization of an Army of 4,000,000 men within a period of one year following any international crisis resulting in a national emergency for the U.S." The chief units in that system, if General Marshall has his way, would be the Regular Army, the National Guard, an Organized Reserve -with universal military training to fill out these ranks (and the Navy's) in an emergency...
...draft hooked other educators, J. B. Stokes gaffed them and landed them on the Academy staff. Heads of departments remained, as always, regular Navy officers. But reserves and civilians took over the heaviest teaching load. The effect was refreshing. The difficulty the Academy now faces is keeping them on its staff. Many of them will go back to civilian colleges at the first chance...
Everett Hoagland, the young American who leads the band at Giro's, saw he dance at a Veracruz fiesta. He orchestrated the simple folk melody and noted down its dance steps. Back at Giro's he began to alternate it with his regular fare of rumbas, sambas and congas. Within six weeks Mexico City's socialites, free-spending European expatriates and Amerlean travelers were calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance...
...snag. Stars Alois Lang (the Christus), Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
...Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe is moderator on the current events programs...