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...hand is a Federal body set up to allot radio frequencies and license stations in the public interest. Through its licensing power it theoretically holds the whip hand over every one of the country's 890-odd stations. At its head is a tall, unreconstructed Texan, an oldtime anti-trust lawyer and regionalist who was once general counsel...
...Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Lieut. General Walter Campbell Short, 61, was relieved as Commander of the Hawaiian Department. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 59, was relieved as Hawaiian Air Force Commander. In their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy's best strategists and administrators, Rear Admiral Chester William ("Cottonhead") Nimitz, 56, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. To command until Nimitz arrived: Vice Admiral William Satterlee Pye, 61, Battle Force Commander...
...Luzon. Strategists have long recognized that in a pinch Mindanao might have to be abandoned to the Jap-who would still be far from his objective, with no solid land bridge to the north. Davao's defenders were a comparatively small force headed by a 51-year-old Texan, Lieut. Colonel Roger Hilsman...
...Dalhart, Tex. the words Dust Bowl are fighting words. The Dalhart Texan will pay $50 for information identifying the human Gila monster who coined the term Dust Bowl. "Maybe we did have some wrong farming methods," says Editor Albert Law, "and maybe we did have some dust storms. But we're really getting back to normal. We've got food crops that look like forests...
Instructors in Electronics; Herbert D. Schwetman of Waco, Tex., A. M. University of Texan '37; and Harry E. H. Stockman of Cambridge, Mass., Diploma, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm...