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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James ("Jimmy's Got It") Roosevelt requested demotion from his rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, which he held as a White House aide; asked to be made a captain instead. Reason: the rank of lieutenant colonel was too high for his "age and experience." Captain-to-be Roosevelt is 31. His resignation was promptly accepted, his appointment to a captaincy speeded...
...Japanese Foreign Office has always been a sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
...elected Dr. Frank Aydelotte, 59, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. secretary for the Rhodes Scholarships (TIME, Oct. 16). Dr. Aydelotte will leave Swarthmore as soon as a new president can be found, meanwhile will divide his time between Swarthmore and the Institute. Having raised Swarthmore to top rank in his 18 years there, Dr. Aydelotte said of his new job: "One more stirring adventure...
...small boy read from a tablet the question with which this film faces everyone who sees it: "Whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." The question, not the answer, makes Mr, Smith Goes to Washington much more than just another top-rank Frank Capra film...
...problem facing the department due to the President's order concerning the assistant professors was how to dispose of the six men holding that rank. It was considered necessary to find positions elsewhere for two men, which has been done, Professor Holcombe explained. One was promoted, two others kept on at the same rank, and one case left undecided...