Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because it is sincerely written and carefully acted, notably by Miss Lupino, and because Vincent Sherman is one Hollywood director who tries to make every shot count, In Our Time manages now & then to give domestic point to the political drama in the background. But much of it is too purely domestic, and some of it suggests a blunted, insensitive imitation of Chekhov...
...method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force's aeronautical chart division, a baldish, twinkling Irishman, was awarded the Sherman Mills Fairchild plaque for his achievement...
Asked a correspondent: "Are you willing or ready to use General Sherman's remark that 'I will not accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected...
...Britain. General MacArthur's men (Marine veterans of Guadalcanal) had won their objective on New Britain's western tip: the Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary...
Major General Sherman Miles, Commanding General of the First Service Command; Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, Commandant of the First Naval District; and Rear Admiral Richard H. Laning, Medical Corps, First Naval District, represented the armed forces at the ceremonies. The Army trainees were commissioned First Lieutenants, and the Navy trainees Lieutenants...