Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...London the President dispatched brilliant Rear Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, who until recently was Assistant Chief of Naval Operations in charge of war plans. Rear Admiral Ghormley's talents fit him to watch British naval warfare, post the President on developments which affect U. S. naval strategy...
This distinguished new Governor did not reach Nassau last week, but he got part way to his post, landed at another British possession, Bermuda, from the U. S. ship Excalibur. A tiny admiral's barge brought the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to the landing of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club after an eight-day voyage across the glassy Atlantic from Lisbon. A naval band struck up God Save the King. An honor guard of sailors and volunteer rifles stiffened to attention. Bermuda's Governor Major General Sir Denis Kirwan Bernard strode forward to greet his onetime King with...
...Mexican show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, May 27) has attracted the lowest attendance recorded so far in the Museum's swanky, streamlined 53rd Street building. Main reason for gallerygoers' apathy: most of the contemporary Latin-American art shown has looked like the post cards tourists send home...
...post-World War I Paris, music, like politics, nearly foundered in a sea of talk. Talkiest was a group called "The Six." "The Six" talked more than they composed, got the Left Bank dizzy with conversation. As the years passed the one woman member of "The Six," GermaineTailleferre,got married; another member, Louis Durey, gave up both composing and talking. But two of them actually got around to a large batch of serious composing. One of these was a Swiss, Arthur Honegger-famed for his symphonic imitation of a train (Pacific 231)-the other was Darius Milhaud...
...little as they liked to, they admitted that if Germany controls post-war Europe, they will trade with Germany. Before adjourning they passed a sheaf of resolutions. Among them: 1) gold is valuable; 2) the Johnson Act should be repealed; 3) the Hull reciprocal trade agreements are fine...