Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moment of Silence. At first no hint of the new disclosure leaked out. But early last week, Robert E. Stripling, chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, got an inkling of what had happened...
...months, a bipartisan commission, created by Congress, has been tracking down waste and inefficiency in the executive department. It has been a journey through organizational chaos for 24 teams of experts. The commission's chief is Herbert Hoover, whose administration somehow got along on $4 billion a year (now it takes $43 billion) and with about 604,000 civilian employees (now there are more than...
...York, where the only ground for divorce is adultery, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank Hogan officially discovered what every judge, lawyer and common citizen had known for years-the existence of "divorce rings" which systematically fake evidence of adultery. His chief witness was a 20-year-old mother of three named Sara Ellis, whose fee for being "discovered" in a hotel room with a divorce-seeking husband...
Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...
...pilot pointed toward four olive drab Chinese air force transports across the field. "Looks as if the Chinese air force has just about pulled out," he said. "What are we doing here?" "What are we usually doing?" snorted another pilot. A short, young Chinese chief mechanic broke in: "You take me back to Nanking tonight, huh? I don't want to make no hero...