Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head the new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, Truman named an old war horse and respected citizen, retired Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, whose most recent public assignment was U.N. administrator for the abortive Kashmir plebiscite. The other members were of the same high caliber: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former president of the National League of Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman...
...days later, the Congressmen hopefully tackled Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg. How about the 799,000 4-Fs? "Here is what the country is disturbed about," explained Chairman Carl Vinson. "We read where some football player or prizefighter, able to draw $10,000 a season and perform all the work of star athletes, just hasn't got the physical strength to carry a rifle, a hand grenade, or to cook." And as for those disqualified for mental deficiencies, "even if a man can't read Latin or Greek, he can do a little fighting...
...Washington newswomen's luncheon, Guest of Honor Anna Rosenberg was asked if she had mastered "government procedure." Said the new Assistant Secretary of Defense: "Where procedure is concerned, ignorance is bliss. When I want something done, I call up a friend. He says all right, and the next day the job is done. Later, I find the proper procedure was to go through 18 offices, make seven carbons, wait three weeks, and spend several dollars in the process...
...George Marshall it was an old story. Under the bright floodlights in the marble-pillared Senate caucus room, he sat quietly, facing the microphone. But energetic Anna Rosenberg, seated beside him, making her first appearance on Capitol Hill as Assistant Secretary of Defense, was never still. She toyed constantly with her glasses, fluttered papers, jangled her heavy charm bracelets, restlessly tucked her hair up under her sequin-studded pink...
Jumping Generals. Marshall laid down his statement and marched back to the Pentagon, leaving Anna Rosenberg to answer questions and present the details. Mrs. Rosenberg promptly proved that she was a powerhouse of both information and energy. For two hours she reeled off a staggering list of statistics, carried on a discussion of policy, and kept a brace or more of brigadier generals hopping up & down to supply her with papers...