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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requested my removal from duty as Chief of Naval Operations, giving among the reasons therefor that I was, in your opinion, not loyal to my superiors and did not have the 'respect for authority' that should exist 'between various official ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Open Letter | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...last September, when a young Indo-Chinese named Do Dai Phuoc got into a fight with a French soldier in a Paris bus. After the fight Do Dai Phuoc, a doctor of law and president of the Vietnamese Students' Association in France, was arrested for disorderly conduct. Among various innocuous pamphlets in his briefcase, police found a copy of General Revers' top-secret report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...wartime. Once they were all from retired colonels. Before that, it was the engineers' week. There have been weeks for lawyers, doctors, sociologists and even a week of letters from youths who say they have reached the age of reason. From all this I can assume that the various categories of customers have been organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...purpose of the RCA Scholarship grants is to aid 'deserving students of outstanding ability" who are concentrating in any field of the pure sciences or in various branches of engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chen '50 Is Winner of RCA Scholarship, $600 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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