Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Thomas Summerlin, 67, an urbane West Pointer from Louisiana who rolls his own cigarets, rested last week in Washington after mighty labors. So did Colonel Edward W. Starling. The former as chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, the latter as chief of the White House detail of Secret Service, are explicitly responsible for the safety of Their Majesties George VI & Elizabeth during their visit to the U. S. this week...
...Grew was two years ahead of Franklin Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard, calls the President "Frank," undoubtedly can and will give his teacher many a pointer on diplomacy as it is practiced in explosive Tokyo. Already rated one of the best career diplomats in the U. S. Foreign Service when Herbert Hoover sent him to Japan in 1932, Ambassador Grew by general consensus has done a bang up job of pleasantly conveying unpleasant news to the Nipponese...
Witness Hansen. Harvard Professor Alvin H. Hansen, fully equipped with charts, tables, a schoolroom pointer and a green eyeshade, delivered the first lecture: From 1923 to 1929, the average yearly national income was $77 billions, was maintained by the average annual investment of $18.3 billions in new plant and equipment. In 1930-36 annual income averaged only $53 billions (it is now around $65 billions) and only $8.6 billions were invested in new capital goods. Professor Hansen wasted no time over economists' chicken & egg dilemma whether a big national income begets big investments in new capital or vice versa...
...found, after examining other projects in WPA's New York City area, that WPA costs were, as a rule, two and one-half times private costs. To all of this, New York City's WPAdministrator, Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, D.S.C., a 47-year-old West Pointer from Arkansas, replied: "Everybody in town knows that the WPA is doing a pretty good...
...next Chief of Staff he chose a man who was a colonel until 1936, has been a real Brass Hat only since last July. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff, at 58 becomes the only full general on active service, the first non-West Pointer since 1914 to be Chief of Staff. The last was Leonard Wood, who began as an Army doctor...