Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conceivably they could vote to retain Commission of Government, to join Canada or link with their newly appreciated neighbor, the U.S. Best guess: a start on the long road back to full self-governing Dominion status, which had long been their pride...
Eventually, Congress killed the extreme proposal, contented itself with limiting flight pay to officers whose duties require regular flying and those who must fly to retain "primary technical skill." By Jan. 3, the War and Navy Departments must submit recommendations for revising all forms of hazard pay, including that given to submariners (also 50% added). The brass would like to save their own flight skins, but may have to sacrifice some in a compromise to let the hard-flying lower ranks keep theirs intact...
...Devander and William O. Player Jr., pointed to one: "Would he [Dewey] have gained any political advantage by telling all he knew? If he had done so he would have invited denunciation by General Marshall and Admiral King, whom Dewey was praising throughout the campaign and promising to retain in office if he were elected. . . . We'd say that Dewey was right on political as well as patriotic grounds; and that if he'd thrown that dynamite bomb it would have done more damage to him than . . . to F.D.R...
Martin Bookspan '47 was elected President of the Crimson Network to succeed John M. B. Churchill '45 in elections at the Network's Dudley Hall studies Sunday night. Bookspan will retain his position as Classical Music Director...
Bright Future. War-fattened Republic Aviation Corp. announced that it would retain between 4,000 and 5,000 workers fulltime, many of them to turn out its new commercial transport. All experimental contracts for war craft have been retained, and certain new military models will continue in production. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announced $180 million worth of peacetime contracts for military and commercial aircraft-enough to keep their Baltimore factory busy on a 40-hour work week until September...