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...peace & preparedness, the U.S. Army's rules for promoting officers have run on steel-straight rails: promotions to the grade of general officer, temporary or permanent, are made solely on the basis of selection; promotion to grades lower than general were based solely on seniority...
Last week the War Department gave sympathetic ear to the complaints, issued a decision that "future temporary promotions of Regular Army officers to the grade of colonel will be determined on a basis of selection. The system may eventually lead to the extension of the policy of selection for temporary promotion to all grades and in all components during the present emergency." No longer could synthetic fire-breathers of the Organized Reserves leapfrog lightly over their Regular brethren...
North Carolina last week was upset because its fifth-grade pupils were learning State history out of a book (North Carolina Yesterday & Today by Jule B. Warren) which declared that...
...harp on the conservatives of the Democratic Party down to and including the administration of Governor Hoey and plainly intimates that both Governor Ehringhaus and Governor Hoey owed their election to election frauds. Such an implication . . . is entirely out of place in a proposed history for the fifth grade...
...certificate of necessity to build $150,000,000 worth of steel mills in the West. His plans include blast furnaces in Utah for Rocky Mountain coal and ore; electric furnaces near Bonneville Dam to use cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate mill near Los Angeles. He thinks he could complete this setup in twelve months, start producing 1,500,000 tons of steel a year, adding...