Admiral Leahy Named Chief of Naval Operations
Admiral William D. Leahy succeeds Admiral William H. Standley as chief of naval operations. Standley, retired recently, greets his successor, former head of the Bureau of Navigation.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
3
Admiral William D. Leahy succeeds Admiral William H. Standley as chief of naval operations. Standley, retired recently, greets his successor, former head of the Bureau of Navigation.
Dr. Wendell M Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Princeton NJ received the AAAS science medal and a $1,000 prize for his work on the nature of common cold disease producing factors. He is among the youngest recipients of the honor.
Mrs. Alice Bull, a Seattle rifle shooter, was named by the National Rifle Association in Washington, D C, as the only woman ever to place in the President's Hundred, the top national marksmen.
The unicameral Nebraska legislature began with cautious action as 43 members and officers set boundaries and started initial lawmaking. Charles J. Warner was elected speaker, R. C. Regan named committee chair, Hugo Srd chief clerk, and Fred Mueller assistant clerk. The governor opposed broad sales and income taxes and any state weed eradication program, urging federal soil conservation and a weed commissioner instead. A widow of former rep Marion Cushing was named postmistress. The session also tackled insurance compliance and social security continuation.
A collection of quotations discusses independence and jail metaphor envy as a cause of unhappiness, political life pilots and ports, not wasting time, serving God and living things, and hope versus faith as possession of dreams from figures such as Till, Russell, Maurois, Fosdick, Einstein, and Jules Simon.
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