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...services (Army and Navy) still have much to do in common with land and sea forces, therefore should not be separated now. A further reason heard in Canada for the U. S. keeping its system: once set up, a separate air force is hard to get rid of, if actual wartime situations require subordination of the air to other services...
Into Sir John's old job went weak-eyed, strong-willed Herbert Morrison, a Laborite who knew London's problems from having lived in its slums and having battled to get rid of them while running the London County Council. Succeeding Morrison in the key post of Minister of Supply was cold, shrewd Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Iron and Steel Federation, who moved up from Presidency of the Board of Trade. Into the Board of Trade went handsomely mustached Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who, before the war, was managing director...
...removing Lombardo, President Cárdenas implemented General Avila Camacho's promise to rid Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...
Seabrook's theory: witchcraft (black magic) is potent, can kill by autosuggestion, just as psychotherapy (white magic) can rid folk of fancy-induced but very real ills. Corollaries: 1) the witch's victim must fear, perhaps unconsciously, the power of magic; 2) witchcraft can affect only human beings...
...campaign for Philippine independence had won support in parts of the U. S. A powerful sugar lobby and many a U. S. producer wanted competitive Philippine products put on the foreign list, subjected to tariff. The Philippines had become an expensive experiment in imperialism. Public desire to be rid of the Islands was finally reflected in the Tydings-McDuffie Act, creating a unicameral Assembly with broad domestic powers, granting full independence...