Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chicago, George Series, 15, and Edward Mendenhall Jr., 16, went off to join the U. S. Army. They took with them: two bayonets of the Franco-Prussian War, one bayonet of the Civil War, one plain bayonet, one fancy dress sword...
...Salt Lake City flew Civil Aeronautics Board men to investigate the second crash on U. S. airlines in 65 days-after a 17-month period in which not a single life was lost. But Pilot Fey's flying friends thought they already knew the answer. The beam must have failed just as he turned off into the "A" zone to head south. Angling back on to the steady hum of the beam before heading south to the airport, he should have heard the cheeping dot-dash of the "A" until he picked up the steady hum of the course...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, author of the bill setting up the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority, raised his voice. Less than five months ago Franklin D. Roosevelt by executive order reorganized CAA, made it a board under the Department of Commerce. The change was made over the protest of airlines and pilots, who had found CAA's administration stern but effective, feared a change might wreck a great safety record. Last week Pat McCarran announced that he would begin a fight in January to make CAA independent again. Said he: "There is no branch...
...dress, inattention to saluting . . . general inefficiency. . . . The successful leader must, first, have a thorough understanding on his own part of [these principles]. . . . Further, he must constantly keep in mind the twin objectives of the selective service law, i.e., 1) to train an adequate military force . . . 2) to return to civil life young Americans inculcated with a high sense of duty and patriotism...
Married. John D. M. Hamilton, 48, two days after he resigned as executive director of the Republican National Committee; and Jane Kendall Mason, 30 (according to Mrs. Coolidge "the most beautiful debutante who ever entered the White House"), who last month divorced George Grant Mason Jr., member of the Civil Aeronautics Board; in Tampa...