Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Army privates rated $13 a month. Then war came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received $3,240 to $4,800 (plus keep and servants...
Typical officer pay is that of General Grant's grandson, U. S. Grant III, who as an engineer colonel with 37 years' service is entitled to a maximum of $600 monthly - more than three times what his distinguished granddad averaged in the service. Lowest-paid commissioned officers are the $125 shavetails. Best-off are flying officers, who, to the great envy of Army groundlings, on flying duty get 50% more than the normal base pay for their ranks...
This operation, first devised in Spain, was performed on eight schizophrenics by Dr. Francis Clark Grant, U. of Pa. professor of neurosurgery. The results, declared Dr. Strecker, were "interesting and sometimes truly amazing." Homicidal aggressions and panics due to hallucinations disappeared. The hallucinations persisted, but it became easier to recall the patient to reality. One of the cases was a young woman who had been so violent she had to be fed with a stomach tube. She insisted on going naked, flew into frequent rages. A week after her operation she was willing to wear clothes, play bridge, could take...
...democracy's side. It must be an example of the desire of American students for the retention of their fundamental right of free expression. We students of Harvard must rally to the support of our fellow Michigan students, writing to President Ruthven asking him to reopen the case and grant the students their hearing...
...Miss Grant and the other shorts are part of the Ministry's new campaign to keep beleaguered Britons alert to the dangers of invasion. This astonishing show of initiative was staged in spite of the wheezy Ministry. It was due to two enterprising men who bored from within: long, lean, vigorous Sidney L. Bernstein, boss of a chain of 35 Granada theatres, and imaginative Jack Beddington, former Shell Oil publicity man who vitalized British poster and advertising methods by hiring top-notch artists to paint Shell...