Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...proposals: American Dream: "The American people . . . have taken their blessings for granted . . . lack a clear perception of what is at stake. . . . Education can help to clarify the nature and goals of democracy. It can portray the American dream of a nation with liberty, justice and opportunity for all . . . develop in all citizens deep and abiding loyalties to the central values of democracy. . . ." Authority: "Must the American people, for the period of the emergency, place the authority to decide issues of national policy in the hands of a few persons...
...tried in 1917. The Chief of Staff is top ranker of the Army in peacetime but likely to be topped in war (as he was in 1917-18) by the field commander of the armies. Function of the Chief of Staff: under the Secretary of War to plan, develop and execute the Army's program for national defense...
...also have the eastern striking force of the Army Air Corps, flying fortresses capable of operating more than 1,000 miles to sea from a new field near San Juan. At St. Thomas, V. I., the Marines have an air base and $1,510,000 has been authorized to develop St. Thomas' fine harbor into a naval station...
...what the Army & Navy want. The Army already has so many (117,000) reserve officers that it is issuing no more commissions (except in the Air Corps). Last week the Navy offered 5,000 young men (19 to 26) a month at sea, three months of shore training to develop reserve ensigns. But neither Army nor Navy was a big enough turbine to take the great head of national energy going over the spillway last week. The best the War Department could devise to channel the flood was a form letter, advising militant civilians to watch their newspapers...
Informed that New York member-mothers had pledged themselves to develop the art of potshotting descending parachute troops (TIME, June 3), Novelist-Mother Kathleen Morris, president of the National Legion of Mothers of America, protested: ". . . Warlike flights of fancy. . . . We are not planning to take up arms. Ours is a peace organization...