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Administering the program is the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The Bureau, through Commander Charles Wesley Shilling, M.C., U.S.N., a submarine doctor since the early days of escape training, set up the machinery to select the right men for the new ships, and to pick the best men for such special tasks as lookout duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Eyes for Submarines | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Times warmly endorsed a new Rockefeller-financed survey of history teaching under the University of Minnesota's professor of education Edgar Bruce Wesley. He disputed the original Fraser-Times demand for more history by insisting that schools teach enough American history. The survey will aim at improving, rather than increasing, history teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Better, Not More | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Those who have volunteered thus far to sing for the fun of it, on their own time, are Wotherell, W. Kulick, K. W. Pauli, E. Kandib, R. H. Follett, R. H. Glauber, S. Aronoff, J. A. Jasper, M. Theaman, V. L. Migliore, B. T. Wesley, E. L. McDonald, L. Wagner, L. J. Kelly, John Vincek, Charles Coflin, and Adam Dydack...

Author: By Pfc. FRANK K. kelly, | Title: Specialist's Corner | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

Month ago, Oklahoma's squarejawed, square-shooting Wesley E. Disney set the fuse. Disney, 59, a Kansas-born onetime trial lawyer, widely popular in the House, is an old hand at political fireworks. Back in 1923 he directed the successful impeachment of an Oklahoma Governor. Last year, almost singlehanded, he upset the Treasury's attempt to cut the tax allowances of oil-well operators (Oklahoma's chief industry). In many another tax revolt Oklahoma's Disney has been well up front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Explosion | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Last week Wesley Disney's fuse burned down, exploded. The House vote against Franklin Roosevelt's order was more than an ominous reprimand to a President; for Congress, it was an action without modern precedent. Congressional historians could not recall when any other Congress in American history had voted to revoke an executive order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Explosion | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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