Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are approximately 280 students in the University's Army ROTC program, divided almost evenly among the four classes, Dupuy explained. He said that the University's unit has no quota, and did not forsee one in the near future...
Previously it had been felt by many faculty members that such a slice would seriously weaken the unit at Harvard. As a result, the groups compromised with the 3/4 credit settlement...
...Press and Printing Office were run as one organization until 1942. But even then, although nominally a unit, they operated separately, since the publishing the printing ends of the book business are quite distinct. In fact, most of today's large publishing houses have either given up their presses or keep them as subsidiary organs...
...organized the political department of the Ministry of National Defense. He established "political officers" in every echelon down to platoon level and even among the guerrilla forces operating on the mainland. Their mission: to indoctrinate the troops for Nationalist China, against the Communists. Orders issued by unit commanders had to be countersigned by the unit political officers, who got their orders from Chiang Ching-kuo and were responsible only to him. They also functioned as a secret police. (In 1951 a top-ranking general was accused by Chiang Ching-kuo's men, and shot for espionage...
Spare the Goose. "Union allegiance is not so pronounced as company allegiance, but it is there." The workers' quarrel, Father Purcell found, was not with the union idea, but with the leadership of their particular unit (Local 28 of the C.I.O. United Packinghouse Workers of America). Only 26% revealed favorable attitudes toward the leaders, and 47% were positively hostile, largely because of the local's record of left-wing tendencies and a strike in 1948 that many rank & filers opposed...