Word: wac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commanding officer of the WAG, Mrs. Hobby tolerated no Jim Crow in training the first class of WAC officers. In fact it was actually through this laudable policy that she becomes the first of the "top brass" to integrate by order...
When the WAAC was first organized, Congress grudgingly admitted that women could do 54 different Army jobs; under Oveta's constant nudging, they eventually came to fill 239 types of jobs-almost the whole sweep of noncombatant military duties. When the WAC was a year old, she proudly escorted Commander in Chief Franklin Roosevelt on his first full-dress review of the Corps. By 1944, WAC headquarters had requests for 600,000 women-more than three times the authorized strength of the Corps-from commanders all over the world...
...Benson's rele, Neil Powell, achieves the high level of the other two performances as does Robin Ladd, as the general's WAC accrotary and Robort Layzer as a newspaper man. Benson, like Masters, has committee one error, but even more than Masters, he needs desperately to have the general's benediction on his integrity. Both Men find it hard to believe the general is real, but both find it easy to believe in him. He is an ideal which they must protect from any corruption, in order that the general may be able to remain a salvaged weapon...
...remain with Wonderful Town for at least a year. She insisted on a clause permitting her to take time off (and make it up later) just in case she wants to do a movie for her husband, whose Independent Artists, Inc. produced the recently released Never Wave at a WAC, starring Rosalind Russell. What time she has left over from performing in Wonderful Town, she spends making speeches, shopping and going to parties, attending civic luncheons, visiting hospitals. With a twinkle in her eye, she faces the future with bubbling confidence, boundless energy, and that shrewd sense of what...
...First Lieut. Fae Margaret Adams, 34, a slight, soft-spoken brunette with a modest air, invaded a male stronghold: she became the first woman doctor to be commissioned in the Regular Army. An ex-WAC who got her M.D. under G.I. rights, she plans to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology...