Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Administration set out to prove to the Senate that the argument was phony. Before the Senate Appropriations Committee went the big guns-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. new JCS Chairman Nathan Twining, and outgoing International Cooperation Administrator John B. Hollister. They spoke eloquently, but perhaps too generally of the urgent necessity for more foreign-aid money to protect the security of the free world. But they failed to dispel the statistical myth of the "surplus" $9.5 billion...
...historical film Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War was incredible. "Who were all those people?" asked the boy when he got home. "Who was General Nogi? I never heard of him." Fifteen years ago, every pupil would have known about the Japanese commander at Port Arthur. but to the present generation, such national heroes as Nogi might never have existed...
While some staffers thought the pun too corny and the sentence open to literal interpretation by the fast reader, none questioned the propriety of printing it. For the punster, betrayed by his nom de plume, was none other than the Times's Publisher and Board Chairman Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who frequently writes a quiet little letter to the editor...
...Cleveland Clinic's Irvine H. Page (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Arthur C. Corcoran. Harvard's Fredrick J. Stare, New York University's Herbert Pollack and Charles F. Wilkinson...
Swaggering Newspaperman Richardson assiduously cultivated his sources, righteously used them to sniff out corruption, solve crimes, dredge up scandal. In 1924, after finding a missing friend for Hearst's famed Editorialist Arthur Brisbane, Star Reporter Richardson found himself, at 30, the Hearst chain's youngest city editor. Then he drank himself out of his first Hearst career in less than four years, spent the next four lurching from despised publicity jobs to outright handouts. Asked what he had done between 1932 and 1936, Richardson once rasped: "I was drunk...