Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with 1,000 dog trainers, and the U.S. K-9 Corps has a nickname ("Wags") as well as a marching song (the K-9 Corps) written by Dog Editor Arthur Roland of the New York Sun.* Though the exact duties of U.S. war dogs are a military secret, Army spokesmen agree that one sentry and one dog are worth from four to eight sentries...
Charles de Gaulle. Last week two British spokesmen, Information Minister Brendan Bracken and North African Minister Harold Macmillan, put the British on record as supporting the political and military decisions of General Dwight Eisenhower. Thus they spiked, officially, reports that the British Government distrusted U.S. policies, and indirectly furthered moves to bring De Gaulle and Giraud together. But the efforts for De Gaulle-Giraud agreement picked up two thorns...
...Office of War Information and, his old spelling teacher by writing Generalissimo with two l's in a longhand letter transmitted to China's Chiang Kai-shek at the opening of a new radiophoto link with Chungking. OWI hastily blotted the extra l with ink eradicator. Chinese spokesmen, with traditional politeness, took the incident more calmly. They often spelled Generalissimo with two l's when using English, they said; moreover, what was the difference after it was rendered into Chinese...
...some Army spokesmen seemed to be trying to sell Darlan & Co. to the U.S., people on a long-term basis,* it may have been because they expected a long fight in North Africa. Said Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces: "We are up against a cross section of the whole German aerial might." Before the campaign's end, General Arnold foresaw a struggle "which almost certainly will determine supremacy in the air over the Mediterranean, and possibly will determine aerial supremacy over Europe...
...home (too much was shelved until after elections). In a historic speech Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to pass the anti-inflation bill-"or else." While Congress wrangled, he took his two weeks' "secret" trip through the country. On his return, he signed the bill. He also chastised Administration spokesmen who said the U.S. was losing...