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...Adjutant. The Commandant's right-hand man is greying, diligent Major A. (for Aloysius) G. Casey, who since 1920 has held every enlisted and commissioned army grade from private to field officer. Originally an ack-ack man in the Massachusetts National Guard Coast Artillery, with which he entered Federal service as a battery commander in September, 1940, he has served at Deer Island, Ft. Standish, Ft. Banks, Fortress Monroe, and half a dozen other stations on the Atlantic seaboard. An alumnus of both the Coast Artillery School and of the Adjutant General's School, he was one of the first...
...President called in his right-hand men in Congress and the Administration, gave them a quick fill-in on the Casablanca conference. He gave another resumé-more travelogue and good spirits than vital information-to his first press conference in over three weeks...
Captain: Did it have a squadron of Dorniers in the upper right-hand corner...
...strikes the sheet all light waves that are vibrating in the plane of the crystals pass through, all others are stopped. Thus the two beams of light from the projector are filtered so that their waves are at right angles to each other. The observer wears similar Polaroid glasses so that his right eye sees only the picture from the right-hand camera lens; the left eye sees only the other picture...
...Jimmy Byrnes was the eternal right-hand man: where was the future leader whom he could serve as good right hand? On all the New Deal horizon there seemed to be just one man who had the qualifications: Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas...