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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Truman camp responded to this bluff and soldierly statement with alacrity. Speaking with some warmth, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced: "Apparently General Eisenhower is being heckled and embarrassed by stories [from] Key West. I cannot imagine what foundation there is for [them]. The President wants it to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Friendly Exchange | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

As usual, Captain Burke drove ahead at flank speed. Under a promise from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson of no reprisals, he testified before the House Armed Services Committee last October, presented a dispassionate defense of the Navy's cherished supercarrier which Johnson had summarily ordered abandoned soon after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARMED FORCES | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Last week Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARMED FORCES | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

At week's end, 14 days after he had received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARMED FORCES | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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