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First, Thayer got rid of Partridge - no easy job. Soon after, he succeeded in dismissing the son of a major general for returning late from vacation. Thus began the impartial, ironclad discipline that was to shape West Point's growth...
...rules and traditions struck Plebe Robert Woods like a tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
Hayek's book is, according to Finer, evidence of a conservative reaction which has been veiled but continuous during the war. "As soon as the world is rid of Hitler, the same questions arise regarding government control of economics." Adding that this book was laughed off in England, finer claimed it was further indicative of a reaction by its reception here...
...appointments were generally applauded. He rid himself of the three weakest members of the existing cabinet: Wickard, Biddle and Madam Perkins. Into their places moved New Mexico's Congressman Clinton P. Anderson, 49, as Secretary of Agriculture; Texas' Tom Clark, 45, as Attorney General; and Washington's onetime Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 50, as Secretary of Labor...
...bonds and preferred stock on the pipeline, get another $15,000,000 in bank loans. With the money, Tennessee Gas will pay off the loans of the RFC and the Chicago Corp. Now, if the FPC decides that Chicago Corp. is a natural gas company, it will simply get rid of the pipeline either by 1) selling it outright or 2) giving it to the stockholders...