Word: expertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British defenses. When General Pershing urged it as a measure of U. S. security (TIME, Aug. 12), prompt objection came from Columnist Hugh Johnson, who pointed out that his old commanding officer and No. 1 hero among U. S. military men was a great general, but no expert on the sea. Last week two retired sea dogs, under the White Committee's auspices, added their voices to General Pershing's: Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 until he reached the retirement age of 64 last year, and Admiral William Standley, Chief...
Naval: Major George Fielding Eliot, who has long urged all possible aid to Britain, hedged on the question of destroyers, asked for expert opinion on the central risk: "the only competent authority . . . is the President of the U. S., after carefully weighing the advice of the War and Navy Departments...
Alsace Restored. For Alsace Hitler had another Putsch & purge expert, Gauleiter and Provincial Governor Robert Heinrich Wagner of Baden. Dishonorably discharged from the German Army for his part in the Beerhall Putsch of 1923, he became a full-time Rhineland agitator and Gau-heeler for Hitler...
...stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen) and his equally eminent wife, Dr. Enid Charles, Britain's No. 1 population expert. A semi-refugee, Lancelot Hogben was caught on a lecture tour in Norway by the German invasion, escaped through Russia to the U. S., last week appeared ready to stay if he could...
...vitality of contemporary writing are Malraux and Dashiell Hammett; Paul Vialar is a third. Jerome himself so inescapably suggests Cinemactor Jean Cabin that the latter must have inspired him. Rose of the Sea is rather a printed movie than a novel, and with a few passages cut would be expert and beautiful...