Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned with getting evidence. People always disbelieve you, particularly senior officers and particularly about submarines. I had to get a body; if you can get a body that is best of all. Next best, a bit of wreckage. If there are no bodies, and no wreckage, and there is a little oil on the surface, you bottle some of the oil, take it home, and they either prove it is diesel fuel or say it is something else. We couldn't get any evidence. But we got credit for the sinking and I collected a D.S.O. That...
According to information released last night at the Quincy Street office of Captain George N. Barker, USN, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, there is a strong possibility that members of the Naval ROTC Class of 1946 will be commissioned and ordered to active duty with their Senior colleagues at the end of this term...
Formerly composed of the senior two classes of the 18-year-old Officer Training Unit the Naval Society is now busy arranging, social activities and professional lessons for the 150 men left in the Classes...
Died. Carl August de Gersdorff, 78, senior member of the famed Manhattan law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood; after long illness; in Manhattan. Born in Salem, Mass., the son of a doctor, he went to Harvard ('87), became associated with a predecessor of the present firm in 1891, after four years was made a partner, was best known for his work in railroad reorganizations (Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Kansas & Texas, Western Pacific, and Frisco) and his active longtime directorships of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Missouri Pacific. His death leaves Robert Taylor Swaine, 57, the only...
...senior warden of Hyde Park's St. James Episcopal Church was accused of using the Holy Bible to promote his political ambitions...