Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt, planning ahead, looked to his military "eyes." The eyes, better known as Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, the President now recalled from the post of Minister to New Zealand. He assigned General Hurley as a "utility man" in the Middle East. Next he prepared to send New York City's bumptious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia overseas, presumably as a brigadier general (see p. 12) to North Africa...
...since Phillip Cabot, professor of Business Administration, organized it in the '20's. No Varsity numerals are given to the men who pick up the bumps and bruises; major athletic credits are their only rewards. Professor Cabot, incidentally, is a non-paid coach, and used to play in New Zealand, where the sport is the equivalent of our football in popularity...
...your issue (TIME, Nov. 2) you referred to Air Vice Marshal Coningham, R.A.F., as an Australian. The reason his nickname is "Mary" (a corruption of "Maori," the name of the New Zealand native, TIME, Nov. 9) is because he is a New Zealander, born and bred...
WILLIAM M. E. TWEED Heretaunga, New Zealand...
Minister Hurley made a hit in New Zealand. He made it a rule never to speak more than four minutes. When he was asked at Wellington to give the people of New Zealand some good advice, he replied: "Socrates was a Greek philosopher. He went about giving people a lot of good advice. They poisoned...