Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Arnold's transfer was only part of the Air Corps's rosy dawn. Full sunrise came in a list of promotions of 26 general officers. They will help boss an army, ground and air, that is being increased from 227,000 to 1,400,000 in one year. Heading the list as No. 1 U. S. flying officer was West Pointer Delos Carleton Emmons, commander of the GHQ Air Force and until last week "Hap" Arnold's subordinate. George Marshall's list gave Delos Emmons the rank of lieutenant general, shared only by the commanders...
There he stood on firmer ground. Crying that the New Deal policy was destroying private initiative, discouraging youth who "stare at our generation with disillusioned eyes and sometimes with revolution in their hearts," he pointed to individual enterprise as their only salvation. Under a friendly government capital would be willing to take risks, develop the vast new opportunities that lie at hand. He saw in an expanding industrial U. S.: "the America of higher wages, of greater consumption, and of opportunity for every individual in the land...
...Chicago Convention, there had been no discussion of the long-term effects on the U. S. of a continuation and extension of New Deal policies. That debate was narrowed to the question: Would Franklin Roosevelt run again?* Last week The Christian Century came out for Wendell Willkie on the ground that a third term for Franklin Roosevelt involved incalculable changes in the U. S. two-party system of Government and the economic order upon which it is based...
...have had to be re-examined in the light of those momentous changes. In that re-examination our eastern universities have played a leading role. They have tried by every means of scholarship to comprehend the new forces, the new meanings. But the going is rough. The firm, sure ground of twenty-five years ago has dissolved into quagmires of conflicting opinion...
...offset this weakness on the ground, both Blaik and Harlow have gone into huddles with themselves and have come out with the same resolution, PASSING. For the Crimson mentor this has meant two shifts in the starting lineup. Last year's Yardling captain, Don McNicol, who is reputed to sling a mean aerial, has been inserted into the starting lineup in place of Charley "The Baron" Spreyer at tailback and Covina, California's Jack Morgan, another newcomer to the Varsity, has taken over the left end slot from Joe Kouman. According to reports from the Charles River practice turf, Morgan...