Word: waacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major Mary Bell, 50, spinster. A longtime schoolteacher (French, Latin, history, mathematics), she was dean of women at Coe College in Iowa when she joined the WAG (then WAAC) in 1942. She was graduated with the first class of women officer-candidates, one of the oldest of her group, rose rapidly. Her associates say that she is motherly, sympathetic, popular, call her "Mummie...
Diminishing Return. The history of WAC recruiting has been one of diminishing returns. In May 1942, when Hobby's army was the WAACs, a kind of stepsister to the Army, but not an integral part of it, it looked as if women would indeed come marching "shoulder to shoulder." The Army had set the WAAC quota at a cautious 25,000. The first day 13,208 applied...
BEULAH W. MITCHELL 3rd Officer, WAAC...
Then the President trotted out his example of newspaper home-front subversion: stories of WAAC immorality which the papers had carried. They were deliberate and shameful, he said...
Undoubtedly the President had not seen a survey of press handling of the women's auxiliary services. Conducted by the Twohey Weekly Analysis of Newspaper Opinion, it found: 1) one-third of the press branded the comments on WAAC immorality as vicious, lying propaganda; 2) another third was all for legislation to permit the WAVES to serve overseas; 3) the rest was merely commendatory...