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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with astute Dr. Kung, who then replaced him as Minister of Finance. Until 1940, T. V. avoided politics. He was sent to Washington, negotiated a $100-million loan from the U.S., later secured Lend-Lease help for China, got Administration approval of Claire L. Chennault's scheme to recruit U.S. pilots for A.V.G...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tempest in Chungking | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Women had turned out to be more awed than men by the military structure. Colonel Frank U. McCoskrie, who occasionally inspected a lineup, asking questions, once snapped at a WAC recruit: "Who is the commandant?" Back came the answer: "Colonel Frank U. McCoskrie." To the next WAC he said: "What's in that barracks bag?" Gulped the stiff-legged little private: "Colonel Frank U. McCoskrie." But except for a greater respect for authority and a greater capacity for bustling industry, they were not much different from G.I. Joes. In the evenings, off duty, they talked about home, their dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Hobby's Army | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Statement of a Difference. Essential difference between Jane and Joe was pointed out by a Fort Des Moines recruit who was being loaded into an already jampacked Army truck. "Hey, sergeant," she protested, "have a heart, this bus is full." Said the tough male sergeant: "Lady, I been getting 18 men into these trucks and I sure as hell can get 18 WACs in." Wailed the squeezed WAC: "But men are broad in the shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Hobby's Army | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Sometimes a recruit being examined by psychiatrists is truculent, has a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Navy psychiatrists have learned by experience that such a recruit is not necessarily a psychiatric personality unfit for service; he may be a perfectly normal guy from Brooklyn. Says the New York State Journal of Medicine, the Navy doctors have christened this "harmless social pattern" the "Brooklyn syndrome [set of symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brooklyn Syndrome | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...club responded enthusiastically to President Guild's request for help, and a campaign was mapped to recruit hostesses from Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEGRO LEADER TALKS TO AYD | 12/7/1943 | See Source »

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