Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Government prepared to appoint regional commissioners with power to administer their respective areas if the central administration was disorganized. Adjutant General Colonel Liam Hayes issued a call for 10,000 volunteers within a week. Full-page newspaper advertisements blared out the need for 400,000 volunteers to supplement the regular Army's 70,000 and 120,000 volunteers already under arms. "Everyone who can walk should join the Army," urged Dail members...
General Marshall wanted something else: immediate mobilization of the National Guard's 230,000 men, 15,000 officers. He undoubtedly had in mind the Latin-American police duty for which he has been told to prepare the Regular Army. But his immediate reason was less ominous. He wanted to give the guardsmen intensive training, then use them to absorb and train the conscripts, rather than dilute the Regular Army with raw men. Last week the President set out to get George Marshall part of what he wanted. Announced at the White House was a plan to call out four...
Unity. For three days the word "Communism" was taboo on the convention floor, was whispered only in corridors and 'caucuses. On the fourth day it exploded on the floor after a Denver "regular" presented a resolution cautiously condemning subversive movements, "Trojan horses or fifth columns." Up sprang a Seattle insurgent to offer an amendment: "That Communism, Naziism and Fascism are not . . . indicative of [the Guild's] beliefs . . . and that this organization will not tolerate any attempt by these subversive elements to ... control [Guild] policies...
Barman. Next day Guildsmen spent twelve hours nominating and electing officers. Insurgent Candidate Kenneth Crawford, who had filled out Heywood Broun's unfinished term, went down in defeat. By a vote of 78⅔ to 66⅓ Regular Candidate Donal Sullivan became the Guild's new president. Secure in the saddle remained Milton Kaufman, Victor Pasche, Morris Watson...
...model side until the boys persuaded him to smoke a few cigarets, toss off a couple of noggins of beer. At 18, he was sent to Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles G. Morton, whose stepdaughter he married in 1923. Same year he met David Sarnoff who raved so much about radio's possibilities that Trammell asked...