Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally this shift was not accomplished without strife in the Army. No secret in Washington is the fact that ever since able little Oscar Westover crashed to his death last year (TIME, Oct. 3), his successor has had to wage a friendly struggle with Chief of Staff Malin Craig...
...first foreigner (except for members of the tiny Dutch colony at Deshima) to live in Japan since the expulsion of the Catholic missionaries in 1638, Harris had no battleships to back him. The State Department left him to shift for himself. The Japanese distinctly did not want him around, Commodore Perry notwithstanding. They asked him to go home on the ship he came on. When he refused, they set a cheeky guard around his miserable house, prohibited his traveling more than seven miles from the dismal fishing village of Shimoda, gave him diseased chickens to eat, picked on his Chinese...
...important change in the Crimson line-up was made after Thursday afternoon's practice session at the Skating Club, when Coach Hodder shifted Freddie DeRahm, who has been playing on the second line this year, up to the position of right winger on the first trio with Austie Harding and Joe Patrick. This shift will put DeRahm back on the same combination that he played with during part of last season...
...Harding and Joe Patrick, who have developed into one of the finest combinations in recent Crimson ice history will be counted on for most of the Varsity's scoring punch. The Elis have three almost equally strong lines, and despite the probable strengthening influence of the De-Rahm-Winslow shift, Hodder's first trio and especially Harding will still have to supply the brunt of the attack...
...When U. S. Army & Navy officers talk shop nowadays, they chatter less about Roosevelt Rearmament than about a recent, historic shift from professional to civilian control of military affairs (TIME, Dec. 19). From Commander in Chief Franklin Roosevelt down, civilian authorities now are telling the admirals and generals what to do, sometimes are even telling them...