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‘face’ (Latin) definition
feminine noun III declension singular ablative case of fax feminine noun III declension singular nominative
‘torch, firebrand, fire’
In his youth, Zuckerberg attended the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) summer camp. On his college application, Zuckerberg stated that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.
Julian Cecil Stanley (July 9, 1918 – August 12, 2005) was an American psychologist. He was an advocate of accelerated education for academically gifted children. He founded the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY), as well as a related research project, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), whose work has, since 1980, been supplemented by the Julian C. Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent (SET), which provides academic assistance to gifted children. Stanley was also widely known for his classic book, coauthored with Donald Campbell, on the design of educational and psychological research – Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Research.
Julian Cecil Stanley Jr. was born in Macon, Georgia, on July 9, 1918.[1] After finishing high school he attended West Georgia Junior College (1936)— now the State University of West Georgia—and at age 19 years, after attending the Georgia Teacher’s College (1937)—now the Georgia Southern University—he became a high school math and chemistry teacher. During the Second World War he served in the Army Air Corps‘ chemical warfare service (1942–1945). Upon his return, he entered Harvard University where he completed his doctorate in education (Ed.D.) in 1950.
U.S. Military Intelligence, regimental coat of arms
Oriental blue and silver gray is the colors associated with the Military Intelligence Corps. The key, flash, and sphinx symbolize the three basic categories of intelligence: human, signal, and tactical. The flaming torch between the crossed swords of the crest suggests the illumination as provided by Intelligence upon the field of battle.
Facebook’s Connections to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook,[1] is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Publishing Office. The Factbook is available in the form of a website that is partially updated every week. It is also available for download for use off-line. It provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 international entities,[2] including U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world.
The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government officials, and its style, format, coverage, and content are primarily designed to meet their requirements.[3] It is also frequently used as a resource for academic research papers and news articles.[4] As a work of the U.S. government, it is in the public domain in the United States.[5]
A logbook (a ship’s logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship. It is essential to traditional navigation, and must be filled in at least daily.
The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log that was used to estimate a ship’s speed through the water.[1] Today’s ship’s log has grown to contain many other types of information, and is a record of operational data relating to a ship or submarine, such as weather conditions, times of routine events and significant incidents, crew complement or what ports were docked at and when.
The term logbook has spread to a wide variety of other usages. Today, a virtual or electronic logbook is typically used for record-keeping for complex machines such as nuclear plants or particle accelerators. In military terms, a logbook is a series of official and legally binding documents. Each document (usually arranged by date) is marked with the time of an event or action of significance.
LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). According to its bid solicitation pamphlet in 2003, it was to be “an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person’s experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities”. The objective of the LifeLog concept was “to be able to trace the ‘threads’ of an individual’s life in terms of events, states, and relationships”, and it has the ability to “take in all of a subject’s experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to every breath taken, step made and place gone”.[1]
LifeLog aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in. This was to include credit card purchases, web sites visited, the content of telephone calls and e-mails sent and received, scans of faxes and postal mail sent and received, instant messages sent and received, books and magazines read, television and radio selections, physical location recorded via wearable GPS sensors, biomedical data captured through wearable sensors. The high level goal of this data logging was to identify “preferences, plans, goals, and other markers of intentionality”.[2]
Another of DARPA’s goals for LifeLog had a predictive function. It sought to “find meaningful patterns in the timeline, to infer the user’s routines, habits, and relationships with other people, organizations, places, and objects, and to exploit these patterns to ease its task” [2][3]
Generically, the term lifelog or flog is used to describe a storage system that can automatically and persistently record and archive some informational dimension of an object’s (object lifelog) or user’s (user lifelog) life experience in a particular data category.
News reports in the media described LifeLog as the “diary to end all diaries—a multimedia, digital record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say and touch”.[4]
According to U.S. government officials, LifeLog is not connected with DARPA’s Total Information Awareness.[4]
The LifeLog program was canceled on February 4, 2004 after criticism concerning the privacy implications of the system.[5][6]
Facebook originally launched as FaceMash on October 28, 2003, before changing its name to TheFacebook on February 4, 2004.
YouTube = You + Tu + be (‘bee’)
“And YOU will know the TrUth, and the TrUth will make YOU frEE.”
The CIA’s unofficial (but very well-known) motto is a quote from the Bible – John 8:32, to be specific. The verse features heavily in CIA memorabilia. You can even find it engraved on the wall of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
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Twitter = ‘Twit’ + ‘ter’ (‘tre’)
‘twit’ definition and etymology
‘twit’ (verb) – to blame, taunt, reproach from ‘twite’, shortened form of Middle English ‘atwiten’ to blame, taunt, reproach, from Old English ‘ætwītan’, from ‘æt’ at + ‘wītan’ to blame, taunt, reproach, Old English ‘witan’ to know, to be aware of
‘truth’ history and etymology
‘truth’ (noun) – Middle English ‘trewthe’, from Old English ‘trēowth’ fidelity; akin to Old English ‘trēowe’ faithful
“And you will KNOW the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will make you free.”
The CIA’s unofficial (but very well-known) motto is a quote from the Bible – John 8:32, to be specific. The verse features heavily in CIA memorabilia. You can even find it engraved on the wall of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
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Jobs was instead adopted by Paul Reinhold and Clara (née Hagopian) Jobs. Paul Jobs was the son of a dairy farmer; after dropping out of high school, he worked as a mechanic, then joined the U.S. Coast Guard.
When he was 13, in 1968, Jobs was given a summer job by Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project.[17][page needed]
He attended Lowell High School and was the 1929-1930 Battalion Commander of the school’s Army JROTC program.
Hewlett served in the Army during World War II as a Signal Corps Officer. He then led the electronics section of the Development Division, a new part of the War Department Special Staff. After the war he was part of a special team that inspected Japanese Industry.[11]
U.S. Army Signal Corps, branch insignia
Two signal flags crossed, dexter flag white with a red center, the sinister flag red with a white center, staffs gold, with a flaming torch of gold color metal upright at center of crossed flags; 7/8 inch in height. “Crossed flags” have been used by the Signal Corps since 1868, when they were prescribed for wear on the uniform coat by enlisted men of the Signal Corps. In 1884, a burning torch was added to the insignia and the present design adopted on 1 July 1884. The flags and torch are symbolic of signaling or communications.
Jeff Bezos spent summers working at his maternal grandfather’s ranch in Cotulla, Texas, fixing windmills, castrating cattle, laying pipes, and repairing pumps. Lawrence Preston “Pop” Gise had held jobs that a young boy couldn’t help but find cool. Gise worked on space technology and missile defense systems at DARPA in the late 1950s; in 1964, Congress appointed him manager of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Albuquerque operations office, where he supervised 26,000 employees in the AEC’s western region, including the Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. He retired to his southwest Texas spread in 1968, and he doted on Jeff from the time his grandson was an infant. “Mr. Gise was a towering figure in Jeff’s life,” says Weinstein.
Jeff Bezos’ mother, Jackie Gise, divorced his birth father (now reportedly a bike shop owner) the year after Bezos was born (Jackie had been married and given birth at a very young age) and he was adopted by Gise’s new husband, Mike Bezos. Gise married her second husband Mike Bezos when she was 17 and he was 18. Although Mike Bezos worked as a petroleum engineer for Exxon, what’s more interesting about him is his status as a sort of quasi-orphan by virtue of how he arrived in this country alone in 1962 at the age of 15, something that would very likely contribute to a somewhat unusual mind set. He arrived from Cuba as part of what has been reported to be a CIA-run program: “Operation Pedro Pan” or “Operation Peter Pan.” A description of the secretly operated CIA program in Counterpunch says the goal of the program was to “separate elite children from parents (a Cuban brain drain) [ultimately 14,000 Cuban children] and generate political instability,” and according to one of the CIA recruits “to wage psychological war — to destabilize the government.” Evidence reportedly shows that this was done via the CIA working deceptively with a priest and the regional Catholic hierarchy to forge documents and spread lies to convince wealthy Cuban families that Castro’s government was going to take their children away.
Plutocratic Mirage of Self-Made Billionaires
“Gise was a creature of government, specifically of the military-industrial complex. He also oversaw government work done with private contractors. In various capacities, he was involved in numerous projects, some of them covert. For example, he was a key member in secret meetings about the development of the hydrogen bomb.”
In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There
“Bezos was likewise inspired by his own maternal grandfather. Lawrence Preston Gise, an upright but loving naval commander, helped develop the hydrogen bomb during a stint at the Atomic Energy Commission”
AZON (or Azon), from “azimuth only”, was one of the world’s first guided weapons, deployed by the Allies and contemporary with the German Fritz X.
Officially designated VB-1 (“Vertical Bomb 1”), it was invented by Major Henry J. Rand and Thomas J. O’Donnell during the latter stages of World War II as the answer to the difficult problem of destroying the narrow wooden bridges that supported much of the Burma Railway.
AZON was essentially a 1,000 lb (454 kg) general-purpose AN-M65 bomb with a quadrilateral 4-fin style radio controlled tail fin design as part of a “tail package” to give the desired guidance capability, allowing adjustment of the vertical trajectory in the yaw axis, giving the Azon unit a lateral steering capability (meaning it could only steer left and right, and could not alter its pitch or rate of fall). This lack of any pitch control meant that the bombardier still had to accurately release it with a bombsight to ensure it could not fall short of or beyond the target. The “tail package” bolted onto the standard bomb warhead, in place of the usual sheet-metal fixed fins; this concept was an early iteration of a now common method of making modern guided bombs (such as the JDAM, the Paveway family, the KAB-500L, etc.): making the guidance and control units as separate pieces that attach to the tail and/or nose of a standard “iron bomb“, making it into a guided weapon. There were gyroscopes mounted in the bomb’s added tail package that made it an Azon unit, to autonomously stabilize it in the roll axis via operating a pair of ailerons,[1] and a radio control system to operate the proportional-control rudders, to directly control the bomb’s direction of lateral aim, with the antennas for the tail-mounted receiver unit built into the diagonal support struts of the tail surface assembly.[1] The bomb’s receiver and control system were powered by a battery which had around three minutes of battery life. The entire setup in the added “tail package” was sufficient to guide the weapon from a 5,000-foot (1,500 m) drop height to the target. Situated on the tail of the bomb was a 600,000-candela flare which also left behind a noticeable smoke trail, to enable the bombardier to observe and control it from the control aircraft. When used in combat, it was dropped from a modified Consolidated B-24 Liberator, with earlier development test drops of the Azon in the United States sometimes using the B-17 Flying Fortress as the platform.[1] Some ten crews, of the 458th Bombardment Group, based at RAF Horsham St Faith, were trained to drop the device for use in the European theater.
The ability to only control the path of the bomb in the azimuth direction, made AZON bombs most suitable for long and narrow targets, such as bridges or railways. A disadvantage of using an AZON bomb was that after a bomb was dropped the bomber could not break way immediately because the bombardier had to keep the bomb in view so he could guide it. The bombardier used a BC-1156 joystick control to adjust the course left or right. The directional commands were sent to the guidance package via a special-purpose radio system.[2]
The 493rd Bomb Squadron[3] also dropped Azon bombs in Burma in early 1945 from similarly modified B-24s, based at Pandaveswar Airfield, India, with considerable success, fulfilling the designers’ original purpose for the ordnance.
Sandia Lab News – June 7, 1963
L.P. Gise was a Lt. Commander in the Navy from 1942 to 1946, served briefly with the Veterans Administration, then returned to the Navy Department as Deputy Chief of the Estimates and Analysis Division, Budget Office. In 1958, he went to the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, where he served until 1961, progressively in the position of Director of Program Control and Administration, Assistant Director, and then Deputy Director.
Sandia Lab News – December 1, 1967
AWARD from U.S. Navy presented to L.P. Gise, manager of AEC Abq. Operations for organization’s contribution to Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile System. Cmdr. Dan Piraino, representing Navy’s Special Projects Office, D.C., presented award.
Sandia Lab News – February 23, 1968
Mr. Gise joined Dept. of Agriculture in Washington as a messenger in Aug 1935. He left that agency as chief, Administrative Service Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Engineering in 1942 to transfer to the Public Building Administration. That same year (1942), Gise entered the U.S. Navy and served as an officer for four years. Following his military service, Gise served briefly with the Veterans Administration in Dallas and later with the Navy Department in Washington. Gise joined the AEC’s Division of Finance in 1949, transferring the following year to the Division of Military Application. He became assistant director of the division in 1955. In 1958, Gise transferred to the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense where he served progressively as director, Program Control and Administration; and assistant director and deputy director, Administration. Mr. Gise was president of the Albuquerque-Santa Fe Federal Executives Association, an officer and director of the United Community Fund, and a member of the Albuquerque Armed Forces Advisory Committee.
William Henry Gates II[1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates),[2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations.[3] He was the father of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.[4]
Gates served in the US Army for three years during World War II.[8][3] He subsequently attended the University of Washington under the G.I. Bill,[9] earning a B.A. in 1949 and a J.D. degree in 1950.[10] While at UW, he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity.[11]
Mary Ann Gates (née Maxwell; July 5, 1929 – June 10, 1994) was an American banker, civic activist, non-profit executive, and schoolteacher. She was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM‘s CEO, John Opel, and the first woman on the First Interstate Bank of Washington’s board of directors.[1]
She served on the boards of various major corporations including the First Interstate Bank, Unigard Security Insurance Group, and Pacific Northwest Bell. She also served for 18 years (1975–1993) on the University of Washington‘s board of regents.[1][2][3] She was the mother of Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft.
Beyond the Seattle area, Gates was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980, becoming the first woman to lead it in 1983. Her tenure on the national board’s executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed her son’s company with John Opel, a fellow committee member, and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.[2]
IBM’s Connections to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
IBM’s Connections to the U.S. Department of Defense
Google’s Connections to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. National Security Agency
GOOgle = Go + Ogle
C.I.A. Vision Statement
ONE AGENCY. ONE COMMUNITY.
An Agency unmatched in its core capabilities, functioning as one team, fully integrated into the Intelligence Community.
C.I.A. Mission Statement
We are the nation’s first line of defense. We accomplish what others cannot accomplish and GO where others cannot GO.
‘ogle’ definition and etymology
transitive verb 2 : to look at especially with greedy or interested attention
from Low German ‘oegeln‘, from ‘oog’ eye; akin to Old High German ‘ouga’ eye
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After the American declaration of war against the Axis Powers, Jack, like some other studio heads, was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps.[102][103]
Warner occupied a central place in the Hollywood-Washington wartime propaganda effort during the Second World War, and by the end of 1942, served as a frequent, anti-Axis spokesman for the movie industry.[82] Despite his conservative viewpoint[83] and longtime affiliation with the Republican Party,[72] Warner was also a close friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported him during the early 1930s.[64] During Roosevelt’s fight for the Democratic nomination in early 1932, the Warners made an effort to make his name known throughout the state of California.[84] After Roosevelt was nominated, the three brothers asked their friends to contribute to his campaign.[84] Jack Warner even staged a “Motion Picture and Electrical Parade Sports Pageant” at L.A. Stadium in Roosevelt’s honor in 1932.[84] During Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign, Warner and the studio also contributed $10,000.00 to the Democratic National Committee.[85] In the wake of Nazi Germany’s rise to power, Warner became a key proponent of US intervention in Europe.[86]
Prior to the beginning of the war in Europe, Warner had produced a series of film shorts which glorified America’s fight against Germany during World War I; Warner later received an honorary award for producing these shorts.[87] By the fall of 1938, Warner had gradually helped block the distribution of Warner Bros. films in Nazi Germany and its ally Italy.[88] Prior to the war’s beginning in Europe, Warner supervised the production of two anti-German feature films, The Life of Emile Zola (1937)[89] and Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939).[90] He spent large sums of money to get many of his relatives and employees out of Germany when the war officially began in the latter part of 1939.[91] Before the U.S. officially entered World War II, Warner supervised the production of three more anti-German films: The Sea Hawk (1940), which portrayed Spain’s King Phillip II as an equivalent to Adolf Hitler, Sergeant York (1941) and You’re in the Army Now (1941).
After America’s entry into the war, Warner decided to focus on making just war films.[92] During the duration of the war these included Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, This Is the Army and the controversial film Mission to Moscow.[93] At the premieres of Yankee Doodle Dandy (in Los Angeles, New York and London), audiences for the film would purchase a total of $15,600,000.00 in war bonds for the governments of England and the United States.[93] By the middle of 1943, however, it became clear that audiences were tired of war films.[93] Despite the growing pressure to abandon the topic, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process.[93] Eventually, in honor of studio contributions to the war cause, the United States Government would name a Liberty Ship after the brothers’ father, Benjamin Warner, and Warner would be given the honor of christening the ship.[93] By the time the war ended, $20,000,000.00 worth of war bonds would be purchased through the studio,[93] the Red Cross collected 5,200 pints of plasma from studio employees,[93] and 763 studio employees, including Warner’s son-in-law Milton Sperling and nephew Jack Warner Jr., served in the U.S. armed forces.[93]
Disney enrolled at McKinley High School and became the cartoonist of the school newspaper, drawing patriotic pictures about World War I;[19][20] he also took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.[21] In mid-1918, he attempted to join the United States Army to fight the Germans, but he was rejected as too young. After forging the date of birth on his birth certificate, he joined the Red Cross in September 1918 as an ambulance driver. He was shipped to France but arrived in November, after the armistice.[22] He drew cartoons on the side of his ambulance for decoration and had some of his work published in the army newspaper Stars and Stripes.[23]
World War II and beyond: 1941–1950
Shortly after the release of Dumbo in October 1941, the U.S. entered World War II. Disney formed the Walt Disney Training Films Unit within the company to produce instruction films for the military such as Four Methods of Flush Riveting and Aircraft Production Methods.[93] Disney also met with Henry Morgenthau Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury, and agreed to produce short Donald Duck cartoons to promote war bonds.[94] Disney also produced several propaganda productions, including shorts such as Der Fuehrer’s Face—which won an Academy Award—and the 1943 feature film Victory Through Air Power.[95]
During World War II, Disney was actively involved in the production of military training films for the United States Government that contained highly classified information and required the highest level of security clearance to be viewed; any previous sympathies towards Nazi Germany would have disqualified him from making such films.[172]
Roberts graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and served a four-year tour on duty in the United States Navy.[4]
Named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945, Sarnoff thereafter was widely known as “The General”.[3]
At the onset of World War II, Sarnoff served on Eisenhower’s communications staff, arranging expanded radio circuits for NBC to transmit news from the invasion of France in June 1944. In France, Sarnoff arranged for the restoration of the Radio France station in Paris that the Germans destroyed and oversaw the construction of a radio transmitter powerful enough to reach all of the allied forces in Europe, called Radio Free Europe. In recognition of his achievements, Sarnoff was decorated with the Legion of Merit on October 11, 1944.[13]
Thanks to his communications skills and support he received the Brigadier General‘s star in December 1945, and thereafter was known as “General Sarnoff.”[14] The star, which he proudly and frequently wore, was buried with him.
Sarnoff anticipated that post-war America would need an international radio voice explaining its policies and positions. In 1943, he tried to influence Secretary of State Cordell Hull to include radio broadcasting in post-war planning. In 1947, he lobbied Secretary of State George Marshall to expand the roles of Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. His concerns and proposed solutions were eventually seen as prescient.[15]
Hastings was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] His father Wilmot Reed Hastings Sr. was an attorney for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon administration, and his mother Joan Amory Loomis was a debutante from a Boston Brahmin family who was repulsed by the world of high society and taught her children to disdain it.[3][4][1][5] His maternal great-grandfather was Alfred Lee Loomis.
He joined the Marine Corps officer training through their Platoon Leader Class, and spent college summers in the Marines, including a stint at the Officer Candidate School boot camp at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia in the summer of 1981. He did not complete the training and never commissioned into the Marine Corps—choosing instead to pursue service in the Peace Corps “out of a combination of service and adventure”.[1][6] He went to teach math at a high school of around 800 students in rural northwest Swaziland from 1983 to 1985 after college.[1] He credits part of his entrepreneurial spirit to his time in the Peace Corps, remarking that, “Once you have hitchhiked across Africa with ten bucks in your pocket, starting a business doesn’t seem too intimidating”.[6][7][8]
“Under the Cloak and Behind the Dagger,” in North American Congress on Latin America, Latin America & Empire Report, July – August pp. 6-8:
The Peace Corps is a perfect structure for the CIA. It provides a point of contact with the working class which is so necessary for information gathering. And, because of the Peace Corps structure, the CIA does not have to control it in order to use it successfully. Many of the youthful Peace Corps volunteers head straight for the poorest sectors of the working class and unemployed. Peace Corps volunteers live with the people and come to know them — politically and socially. They work with them, observe their customs, their way of life, their traditions. And then they draw up work reports describing their experiences. It is not necessary for the CIA to have many agents in the Peace Corps — just in the right places and with access to all the information which is generated. Unknowingly, thousands of U.S. youths, most thinking that they are helping the poor, are instead gathering data for the CIA. Those agents in the Peace Corp who are conscious of their role have several tasks. As they mingle with the people, they are identifying future leftist leaders as well as right-wingers who in the future might work for U.S. interests. They are assessing consciousness, evaluating reactions to reforms. And they are selecting and training future agents.
After graduating from Waseda University[6] in 1933, Masaru went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film, and later served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II where he was a member of the Imperial Navy Wartime Research Committee. In September 1945, he left the company and navy, and founded a radio repair shop in the bombed out Shirokiya Department Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.[7][8]
He was later commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and served in World War II. During his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka at a study group for developing infrared-guided bomb (Ke-Go) in the Navy’s Wartime Research Committee.
As war clouds darkened over Europe in the late 1930s, Paley recognized Americans’ desire for news coverage of the coming war and built the CBS news division into a dominant force just as he had previously built the network’s entertainment division.
During World War II, Paley served as director of radio operations of the Psychological Warfare branch in the Office of War Information at Allied Force Headquarters in London, where he held the rank of colonel. While based in England during the war, Paley came to know and befriend Edward R. Murrow, CBS’s head of European news who expanded the news division’s foreign coverage with a team of war correspondents later known as the Murrow Boys. In 1946, Paley promoted Frank Stanton to president of CBS. CBS expanded into television and rode the postwar TV boom to surpass NBC, which had dominated radio.
Among his coursework at Harvard was a Japanese course taught by Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, recommended to him by college administrators based on his study of Latin and Greek in high school.[16] In 1943, Reischauer left Harvard to establish a United States Army Signal Corps training program at Arlington Hall for Japanese translators and cryptanalysts, positions in need during World War II; Redstone would be among Reischauer’s students following the professor to Arlington Hall.[16]
Enlisting in the United States Army, Redstone became a second lieutenant in 1944 before being promoted to first lieutenant. He worked with a team at the Signals Intelligence Service that decoded Japanese messages.[17]: p. 208 [16] Despite leaving Harvard for the military, Redstone had completed enough credits that Harvard granted his Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1944 with a concentration in classics and government.[16][5] After his military service, he attended Georgetown University Law Center before transferring to Harvard Law School and receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1947.[5][18]
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After high school, Walton decided to attend college, hoping to find a better way to help support his family. He attended the University of Missouri as an ROTC cadet. During this time, he worked various odd jobs, including waiting tables in exchange for meals. Also during his time in college, Walton joined the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was also tapped by QEBH, the well-known secret society on campus honoring the top senior men, and the national military honor society Scabbard and Blade.
Walton realized while serving in the army, that he wanted to go into retailing and to go into business for himself.[11]
Walton joined J. C. Penney as a management trainee in Des Moines, Iowa,[10] three days after graduating from college.[8] This position paid him $75 a month. Walton spent approximately 18 months with J. C. Penney.[12] He resigned in 1942 in anticipation of being inducted into the military for service in World War II.[8] In the meantime, he worked at a DuPont munitions plant near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Soon afterwards, Walton joined the military in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, supervising security at aircraft plants. In this position he served at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, Utah. He eventually reached the rank of captain.
The Story of the Walmart Spark
Today, the Walmart logo features the word “Walmart” spelled out in all lowercase letters accented on end by a yellow sunburst Walmart refers to as “the spark.” The Walmart spark symbolizes an expressive connection to Sam Walton’s original spark of inspiration and innovation. It’s Walmart’s way to engage with the legacy he left behind. For Sam, it was about service to the customers. Showing respect for the individual. Striving for excellence. Acting with integrity. Those four values empower associates to make the difference so they can make sure the customer is #1—ALWAYS.
C.I.A. Core Values
Service. Integrity. Excellence.
U.S. Army Intelligence motto
ALWAYS OUT FRONT
U.S. Military Intelligence, regimental insignia
Oriental blue and silver gray is the colors associated with the Military Intelligence Corps. The key, flash, and sphinx symbolize the three basic categories of intelligence: human, signal, and tactical. The flaming torch between the crossed swords of the crest suggests the illumination as provided by Intelligence upon the field of battle. The motto “ALWAYS OUT FRONT” reflects the forward location in gathering intelligence information.
#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Stanley Goldstein
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Stanley Goldstein. Stanley served during World War II.
In 1940, Stanley joined the Pennsylvania National Guard after seeing advertisements in the paper for a one-year term of service. He ended up serving for five years when the war began as part of the regular Army and was assigned to 111th Infantry Service Company. His unit was responsible for driving trucks and delivering supplies. Stanley didn’t have his license when he joined so he had to learn to drive for the first time on a two-and-a-half-ton truck. His unit stayed on the East Coast during 1942, preparing to defend the coast against invasion. In 1943, Stanley was sent to the Pacific Theater. His unit followed the Marines around and were responsible for securing the islands and making sure there were no Japanese left after the Marines had moved on. First, they did this on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and then Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Stanley was a Master Sergeant by this time and he was responsible for all transportation and servicing of vehicles and helped ensure that the men on the front lines got all the supplies they needed.
In October of 1944, Stanley and his unit were sent to Hawaii for rest and relaxation. While there his unit was responsible for setting up a training school to help prepare other soldiers for combat. In January of 1945, the 111th was to secure their last island, Peleliu. There were more Japanese than usual still on the island and the unit sustained heavy casualties during this period. Stanley remained on Peleliu for the rest of the war and was discharged and sent home in November of 1945. When he arrived home he quickly got married and got a job selling insurance door-to-door. He bought a house with the help of his GI bill and later went into the retail business. He also joined the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. More of his story can be found at http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.25502/.
Thank you for your service, Stanley!
After graduating high school, Ellwood enlisted in the Navy and served as Pharmacist Mate Third Class in the Philippines[6] from 1944 to 1946.
Warren Edward Buffett was born on 30 August 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, as the second of three children and the only son of Leila (née Stahl) and Congressman Howard Buffett.[13] He began his education at Rose Hill Elementary School. In 1942, his father was elected to the first of four terms in the United States Congress,