Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comptroller General Lindsay Warren, of North Carolina, plunged the Administration deep into hot water last week. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Kansas City, Mo. refused to accept a Federal contract if the regular clause forbidding racial or religious discrimination remained. In Comptroller General Warren's ruling he wrote that Franklin Roosevelt's order against such discrimination was not an order, that all Government contracting agencies can do is get the consent of contractors to abide by it. This ruling made the simmering fair-employment problem boil over and caused widespread speculation as to whether Franklin' Roosevelt...
...youthful look of present-day generals is due to their soldierly contours. Average age of the Army's generals (excluding retired officers returned to active duty) is 51. Average age of generals appointed from line branches of the Regular Army in World War I (as of Nov. 11, 1918) was 51 and one month...
...Attendance at West Point is a useful, but not necessary, requirement for promotion to star rank. Of the 971 general officers appointed from Regular Army Promotion List Branches (excluding retired officers on active duty) in this war, 437 (about 45%) are graduates of the Military Academy. Fifteen present-day generals are Annapolis men. (Example: Major General Lewis H. Brereton, Air Forces commander overseas...
...Brigadier General James M. Gavin, 36, who entered West Point from the ranks of the Regular Army, is now in combat with an infantry division overseas...
...Notre Dame loses only one regular, Marine Angelo Bertelli. But he is the No. 1 quarterback and passer in the U.S. and the key to the offense that has won six straight for the Irish. In his final college football game (at least for the duration) Bertelli last week threw three passes for touchdowns, scored one more himself, added two points after touchdowns, as Notre Dame romped over Navy...