Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back home, and back to the Lieutenant-Coloneley with which he entered the War, "Doug" MacArthur shone in the social firmament of post-War Washington. He entered the competition for the hand of vivacious Louise Cromwell, step-daughter of potent Edward T. Stotesbury, and won. General Pershing's aide lost, which did not ease the friction which still exists between the Chief of Staff and the retired General of the Armies. Known as the "Kid General" during the War, MacArthur was given command first of the Fourth Corps Area, then of the Third, a time-killing process necessary before...
...with an Athens law degree, he soon developed an extraordinary flair for leadership, a marvelous sense of situation, a nearly perfect aim with a revolver and one of the greatest poker faces in Europe. Crete was then still Turkish. Venizelos rapidly led two revolts, won Cretan autonomy, the first step toward union with Greece. The Greek Crown sent a chuckleheaded prince as Commissioner to Crete. With another revolt, Venizelos kicked him out because the prince looked on Cretans as a subject race. His local fame as a Cretan established. Venizelos moved to Athens and proceeded to take charge...
...consider [Columbia's action] a step in the right direction, but believe that course is still one year too long. The way to teach journalism, we think, is not to teach it at all as a special, separate college course. . . . We speak from a modicum of experience in this matter. The newspaper organization of which this paper is a part founded the Medill School of Journalism. . . . The Medill School . . . was founded with the idea of training youngsters to become newspaper men and women. Naturally, the newspaper founding the school expected to have first choice from the cream of each...
...stop at the basement entrances to University Hall. Miss Piacope, the charming information Secretary, has amassed a respectable vocabulary of the less polite and more emphatic expressions in our language from the muttered exclamations of persons who sprawled undignifiedly in front of her window as a result of the step...
With the name and fame of Harvard University behind them, any positive program put forward by our Economics professor could not fail to command attention. On fundamentals they agree. On trends of policy they agree. Let them step forward with some constructive criticism and command the attention that is worthy of their ideas...