Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...successive enlargements of the Roosevelt theory of Hemisphere Defense have kept General Marshall shifting paws like a cat on a hot stove. Last February he put the procurement of more material ahead of recruiting more men for the Regular Army. Last June, the unofficial but well-informed Army & Navy Journal reported: "The War Department does not look with favor upon proposals to increase the enlisted strength beyond 375,000 men at this time." In July, General Marshall came out publicly for conscription...
...water as ore) from its own smart research. Arnold also got off a phrase about "economic fifth columnists" which he later tried to define, finally retracted. The vagueness of his charges, coupled with the fact that no indictments were announced, got him a bad press. The Wall Street Journal editorialized about "Folklore of Magnesium." But last week Arnold's Grand Jury, hard at work since mid-July, began churning out "bottleneck" indictments-four in four days...
...Harry Tammen woke up to the fact that his old friend and patron had fallen on hard times, gave Lyulph Ogilvy a job. The Post (now fairly sedate) was a bold, rowdy, unscrupulous journal when Ogilvy joined its staff in 1909. When Tammen asked what his first name was, Ogilvy answered, "Lyulph." Said Tammen: "That's a hell of a name. We'll call you Lord Ogilvy...
...come felt "a distressing sense of incompleteness." Checking the sneeze behavior of the woman's mother, he ran into another double-sneeze pattern. When a granddaughter was born, Dr. Erickson kept careful record of her sneezing, found three generations of double sneezers. In his report in the current Journal of Genetic Psychology, he concluded: "Variations in the [sneeze] pattern may be inherited...
...Washington, New Dealers called the acceptance speech the greatest political failure in history, announced that Harold Ickes would answer, began talking up Ambassador Bullitt's Philadelphia address before Wendell Willkie had finished his talk. Elsewhere the speech was deemed moderately good: to the Louisville Courier-Journal, too general; to Herbert Hoover, a strong speech for a strong people; to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came...