Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen who had been thundering, for an all-out purge of radicals in the State Department (see above) could point to a good example of what they meant and what to do about it. Carl Aldo Marzani, onetime OSS staffer, later a $7,175-a-year State Department economist, had been convicted of fraud against the Government for concealing his Communist Party membership. Last week in Washington, Marzani, born in Italy, educated at Williams College and Oxford, was sentenced by a federal judge to one to three years in prison...
...TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they had stayed with their party, the Republicans would have squeaked through with the two-thirds vote necessary to override...
...northern Korea, a peaceful country, the Russians are now training an army of at least 100,000 (TIME, May 19). In the South, TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans went recently to Suwon, a tidy, grass-roofed village set on a gentle slope south of Seoul, Korea's capital, and there, too, heard marching feet. Mydans wrote...
...Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter; the Marines' Major General Graves Erskine will probably take over from General A. A. Vandegrift...
Chicago Poet Carl Sandburg's admiring comment was: "And on the seventh day he rested...