Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There had been no formal announcement that Joseph Patrick Kennedy was to quit his post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. But the finality of the Herald's farewell spoke what most Britons and Joe Kennedy's colleagues suspected: he was leaving England for good. Friends knew he wanted to get back in the swim of U. S. politics. He had been mentioned for the job of heading the Defense Commission, a job he would like...
Since 1939, the GHQ Air Force has been under the direct command of the Chief of Air Corps. Last week George Marshall changed that setup too. To the Chief of Air Corps (a post now temporarily filled by Major General George H. Brett) were left the jobs of training, procurement, research, etc. As field commander of U. S. armies, George Marshall put Delos Emmons' fighting unit directly under his own command. Farseeing military fliers thought they could see another day, when an Air officer might command an army, might even be Chief of Staff...
...Burlington, N. J., Etiquettical Emily Post made a political speech. Conceding President Roosevelt "a beautiful radio voice and social charm," she nevertheless raised her cultivated accents for tousled, frog-hoarse Candidate Wendell Willkie...
England had won World War I. The price was nervous exhaustion, loss of the will to power. The post-war generation was shot through with futility, discontent, hatred. Churchill perceived that "the decisive battles would be fought for the soul, the will, the morale of his nation." He set about it, for he also perceived that World War I would not be the last...
...past is a young candidate whose eyes are very much open and whose viewpoint is that of 1940. A graduate of Harvard Law School, one of the three men who wrote the Social Security Act, once general counsel for the Labor Department, Tom Eliot has resigned from his latest post as Regional Director of the Wages and Hours Division to bring the representation of the 9th District up to date. His views are those of the relief and reform measures passed by the present administration. But he is not a rubber-stamp, not a coat-tail rider...