Word: ret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...
...vitals of the Third Republic none was more conspicuously malignant than the "affaire Stavisky." It took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
...plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams, Tommy Jefferson and old General Washington (ret...
...Lieutenant, A.U.S., Ret...
When 231 officers of the Navy Supply Corps School are graduated in Potter Auditorium tomorrow, and Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, USN (Ret.) Officer-in-Charge, symbolizes discontinuance of the school by a formal presentation of the school's colors to Business School Dean Donald K. David, the University will have seen all but the last of the 60,000 officers and men it has trained during the past five years...