Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academy after a tour in the Philippines to coach the cadets in French and Spanish. On the Western Front in 1918 Major Stilwell saw plenty of action as a G-2 staff officer. He scoffed at the Distinguished Service Medal he received, said that medals were for the combat infantrymen...
...salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
...organized in the summer of 1945 by a group of politicians, superpatriots, businessmen. Its purpose was to combat the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, to ring doorbells and get out the vote, just the way P.A.C. did. It would have a blacklist, just like P.A.C. Targets of A.A. were such P.A.C.-backed Congressmen as Vito Marcantonio, Hugh De-Lacey, Edmund V. Bobrowicz (TiME, Sept. 30). But as salts in a cooled solution, when agitated, crystallize into some odd shapes, some oddly familiar shapes appeared in A.A. At the bottom...
...returned from the war, where they served in all theaters and earned their share of awards and rank (plenty of brass, including one lieutenant colonel), have gone on to jobs in TIME more suitable to their maturity and experience. Their postwar replacements have been largely veterans, too: combat infantrymen, Navy fighter pilots, an Army Air Forces Captain who had his own squadron in the Pacific, and a sprinkling of durable Marines...
...time the conference met in secret session to hammer out its program there was little doubt what it would be. The main points, as expected: 1) a Wallace-inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections...