Word: topnotchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin turned out to be a much better boss than musty old Whitehall had hoped. He knew much more about Whitehall's business than it had expected. By & large, he left the coterie of career diplomats alone. Bevin is still short of topnotch diplomatic personnel. His star ambassador is Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, recently recalled from Moscow where, the Foreign Office felt, he was being wasted...
...would be glad to get back-as a man who dearly loves Britain, he often says regretfully that he has "slept few nights at home in the last ten years." When he leaves, the U.S. will get another topnotch diplomat in his place. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr,* polished, informal veteran of a dozen capitals on four continents, will come to Washington as soon as he winds up the peacemaking mission he has been assigned in Java...
...been the victim of phenomenally bad luck, both in & out of court. Wearer of three rows of ribbons, including a Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomons, a topnotch officer (according to Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), handsome, 47-year-old McVay had had his ship-and perhaps his career-shot out from under him 16 days before...
...Navy was afraid it was licked. In its extremity, this week, it prepared a compromise. Jim Forrestal and topnotch Naval Aviator Rear Admiral Arthur Radford will go before the Senate committee with something new-the Navy's own plan for merger, based on the elaborate report made for the Navy some time ago by Investment Banker Ferd Eberstadt. The compromise lay in the possible creation of a Secretary of Air, which Eberstadt had proposed but which Forrestal has hitherto rejected. Main features of the plan...
Lock Step. The faculty had been strengthened with topnotch men drafted from civilian colleges. In 1941 the Academy had gathered unto itself J. Buroughs Stokes, a young educator with a doctor's degree from Harvard, had given him a commission and made him Assistant Secretary of the Academic Board...