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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also the first big-scale merging of MacArthur's forces with those of Admiral Chester Nimitz. Admiral Nimitz issued a separate communiqué from Pearl Harbor saying that his cruisers, aircraft carriers and destroyers shelled and bombed the three bases before MacArthur's troops waded ashore...
...purpose of the University is nothing less than to procure a moral, intellectual and spiritual revolution throughout the world. The whole scale of values by which our society lives must be reversed. . . . [It is] the crusade to which we are called...
Young Home "had no profession. He never did a day's work. He became simply, on a lifelong, international, and really magnificent scale, the man who came to dinner." Always ready to help the children with their lessons or admire a housewife's new quilt pattern, he was taken in by families all over New England. He repaid hospitality liberally by dispensing "spirit prescriptions" to the ailing and smelling out long-lost relatives and title deeds...
...large-scale review, first since the Navy Day celebration last October 27 in which, almost 5000 seamen and officers were inspected, will include men from the Communications, Supply Corps, Electronics, Naval ROTC, and V-12 Units, as well as the WAVES stationed at Radcliffe's Briggs Hall...
...Byrnes alternative: a boost in state unemployment benefits, with the extra cost to be paid for by the Government. To make this workable, Congress would have to pass a "federal demobilization law." This would: 1) scale benefits according to previous earnings, with an additional allowance for dependents; 2) cut to a minimum the present period of waiting for the money; 3) eliminate restrictions on the length of time such benefits are now payable. Such a system, he said, might be instituted after the collapse of Germany. He claimed such a law would give "private enterprise the assurance that its efforts...