Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and Navy should now be abandoned as a policy, and particularly the present system of fitting limbs with insufficiently trained enlisted personnel. The Veterans Administration should adopt a more realistic and equitable policy in purchasing artificial limbs so that a veteran may actually be enabled to select the best limb available for his case. The American public wants him to have this choice, but present Veterans Administration policy prevents him from making...
Said the Speech: "Canada . . . should possess a distinctive national flag. You will be asked to appoint a select committee ... to consider a suitable design. . . . The Government also considers that it is advisable to ... clarify the definition of Canadian citizenship...
...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...
...Emergency Council then announced that the newspaper staff had demonstrated its incompetence to select a board of editors. Nicholas McD. McKnight, associate dean of the College, entered the picture at this point with the suggestion that a committee be formed to submit a list of names to the Emergency Council for its determination of the Spectator's managing board...
...highceilinged, austerely white caucus room the House Select Committee on Postwar Military Policy began hearings which might well upset the U.S. tradition against peacetime conscription...