Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The enlisted strength of the U.S. Navy is less than 84,000. The officer strength (commissioned and warrant) is less than 7,000. The Shore Stations, etc., Detached Units, Special Service Squadron and Asiatic Fleet account for, normally, somewhere between 30 and 45% of the total strength. This is governed by conditions such as overhaul periods, etc. The joint maneuvers of the Scouting and Battle Fleets are not participated in by all units of these floating organizations. This arises from the necessity of repairs, overhaul and other conditions affecting the vessels attached to these fleets. From participation in several...
...decision of the Governing Boards of the University to increase the requirements for admission to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is a measure calculated to permit the faculty of that school to devote its time to the training of only those men whose ability and interest warrant their taking advanced work. The rapid growth of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences along with similar decisions on the part of the other graduate schools in the University are the underlying causes for this change. This policy of admitting only those whose past record justifies their taking graduate work...
City officials were kept busy signing tax warrants. The Board of Trad.; admitted to trading shares in the warrant trust to encourage subscriptions. In all the rushed excitement of getting Chicago out of a financial swamp, the only laggard figure was that of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson who sulkily hesitated to approve an ordinance effecting tax warrant interest rates, necessary to put into operation the distribution machinery...
...movement continues sterile . . . from a variety of causes. One ... is the want of really compelling leaders, of men of genius having the warrant of creative artists. The other causes embrace an only fitful instinct for truth, an almost fantastical indifference to beauty, and a deplorable neglect of the fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with...
...good, buying niggling. This pleased the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce heads, who had refused to coöperate with Aviator's Post No. 743 of the American Legion, organizers of the exhibition. The War flyers believed that enough aviation manufacturing and sales groups existed around Manhattan to warrant their enterprise. They were disappointed. They found that many manufacturers begrudged the expense of exhibiting at Manhattan last week and at St. Louis next week, when and where the Chamber-approved International Aircraft Exposition opens...