Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined task force of the U.S. Navy last week declared open war on the rest of the nation's military establishment, end specifically on the new boss of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Beaten and routed in the guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World...
Inevitably last week, public attention came to rest on the expansive person of Secretary Louis Arthur Johnson, 58, the ex-National Commander of the American Legion, the onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the big operator in and on the fringes of Government, the thriving corporation lawyer who commands fees up to $300,000 a year...
Always interested in the philosophy of science, Mr. Cohen entered Yale's graduate department of physics after the war. In spring, 1948, he received his Ph.D...
...tentative rent schedule for the development runs from $115 a month for three-room apartments to $185 a month for some of the houses. In accordance with the Rent Act of 1949, all units will be offered to veterans of World War II during construction and for a thirty-day period after completion. All units not rented by veterans will then be available to other members of the faculty, students, staff of the University, and the general public
...issue of a coeducational Law School was first raised in 1875, Griswold explained, and since then the Law Faculty has voted three times in favor of women at Law School. The last of these votes was taken just before the war...