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...semi-pro National Guard had contributed 76 generals, and perhaps they were the cases to point the way to wider leadership by citizen soldiers in the postwar Army. In World War II the top jobs had apparently been parceled out in fairly direct proportion to training in the years of peace...
Said the New York Times: "The President's role in this matter has been uncertain and vacillating. This latest dissension, moreover, raises once more much wider questions about the President's administrative policies. It is, after all, merely the latest of a long series of such disagreements-between General Short and Admiral Kimmel, Mr. Hillman and Mr. Knudsen, Mr. Ickes and Mr. Henderson, Mr. Eberstadt and Mr. Wilson, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Jeffers and Elmer Davis, Mr. Byrnes and the War Labor Board, Mr. Ickes and the War Labor Board, Chester Davis and Mr. Vinson...
...church stands high on the summit of this granite rock, and on its west front is the platform, to which the tourist ought first to climb. From the edge of the platform, the eye plunges down, two hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the wider ocean, as the tides recede or advance, under an infinite sky, over a restless...
Several members of the Class of 1948 who rowed at prep school have been promoted from the training ship to racing boats already. The remaining '48 rowers will spend some time in a shell barge, a slightly slower and wider variety of shell, before advancing to the regulation boats...
...such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...