Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week General Andrews was no longer unique. Appointed Deputy Chief of Staff was another Air Corps man: genial, white-haired Major General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold. A West Pointer (class of 1907-a year after Frank Andrews), "Hap" Arnold learned his flying from the Wright Brothers, has kept at it since 1911, has commanded the Air Corps for two years. Kicked upstairs to the staff job, he will have charge of Air Corps matters under George Marshall...
...Scholars have done a wide variety of work, ranging from teaching a Sunday school class of middle-aged women to bottling and selling wine, "a conventional job" according to its holder, "made a bit more lively, perhaps, by the commodity which I was handling...
With no read issues splitting the parties, the Government professor sees the campaign as one of personalities. "The only class Willkie has appealed to is business. In labor and agriculture he is trying to outdo Roosevelt, while on foreign policy he is being vaguer to catch more votes...
According to Angell, former regional administrator of the S.E.C. in New York, the basic issues in the election are three: keeping America democratic, preventing class hatred, and keeping...
...turned on the seamen who inhabit the forecastle-a burly, brawling Irishman (Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls...