Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admirals who have made war on the modern seas, none was ever in the fix of Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, by title Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet; by specific function: Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...
...League's other function, to aiding civilian defense, has been taken over on a much larger scale by the Defense Service Committee, and former members of the League will work with the new group as individuals instead of through the League...
Nouveau riche, thriving, socially clambering, the movie colony lacks lineage and decorum. But, says Rosten: ". . . there is being formed an amusement-aristocracy . . . and Hollywood is assuming the social function of European royalty-'that of luxuriously diverting itself in public and diverting others...
...Total Espionage was ready to function. Its setup...
Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...