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...mile hike. Known as "Tommy Two-Star" behind his back, Tompkins served in the Dominican Republic during the 1965 crisis before becoming commander of the Marines' Parris Island boot camp in June, 1966. When Marine Corps Chief of Staff Lieut. General Henry Buse called from Washington to ask Tompkins how soon he could leave for Viet Nam, the new 3rd Marine commander replied: "Tomorrow...
...weeks ago Billy Graham's team of advance men went to work on London with the same methods that they used in Los Angeles, Boston and Albuquerque They plastered the sides of 600 buse with posters and rented 150 billboards 3,000 units of smaller outdoor advertising and 1,500 tube-station posters. They passed out 20,000 car stickers, organized 1,000 volunteer ushers to work on 200 man shifts in huge (11,000 seats) Harringay Arena. About 5,000 home prayer meetings a week were held to pray for the success of the crusade...
...Received a report from its Labor Committee that a 1941 strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant near Milwaukee was called at the direction of the Communist party. The committee charged Harold Christoffel and Robert Buse, past & present presidents of the U.A.W. local, with falsely testifying while under oath, asked the Justice Department to prosecute them...
...march back to work would not mean peace at AC. The local was determined to recapture its lost members, win a new bargaining election. Said Buse: "Our fight must now be carried on inside the plant...
Last week, the charge of Communism was just about clinched. Buse and the local's honorary president, Harold Christoffel, had their pasts examined by a subcommittee of the House labor committee, and the evidence that they had been Communists, despite sworn denials, set the committee studying a citation for perjury. On the strength of this, Allis-Chalmers had fired them both...