Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a small percentage of the 15,000 have been placed-1,654 with the Army and 270 with UNRRA. Since military rank does not figure in the qualifications, many a former enlisted man has turned up in an upper-layer job. The head of UNRRA's motor pool, at a salary of $5,000, is an ex-corporal. UNRRA's chief clerk, at $4,600, is an ex-sergeant...
...training have dismissed every idea of making the Navy a career. ... In conducting a poll, I have found that out of 3,000 midshipmen at most 500 plan to accept commissions and stay in the Navy as career officers. The feeling is strongest in the upper classes, who unreservedly advise all underclassmen to resign now while there is yet time to return to colleges where they can learn...
...contest was between candidates of Quebec's two major parties-ex-Premier Adelard Godbout's Liberals and Premier Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale. The Liberals hoped to reduce the Government's slim majority in the Legislative Assembly (lower House), then turn the Liberal-dominated Legislative Council (upper House) loose on Government bills, and force an early general election...
...Upper Class Appointees...
...appointees, including two men from each of the upper classes, are: Arthur C. McGill '48, Frederick S. Pratt '48, E. Barr Peterson '47, Edward J. Sullivan '47, Bennet R. Keenan '46, and Saul L. Sherman '46. The members of the Council who will serve on the nominating committee are, aside, from Bell, Jerome E. Andrews of the NROTC, William S. Ellis ocC, John C. Harper '46, Peter G. Harwood of the NROTC, and Thomas L. P. O'Donnell...