Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nixon: Have you ever seen George Crosley, Whittaker Chambers or Carl [Chambers' chief name as a Communist agent] or Crosley under any other name in the apartment of Henry Collins...
Because he was a corporation lawyer, he was attacked by a vehement Senate minority and by liberals for his "fixed, set, intolerant mentality" when Herbert Hoover appointed him Chief Justice...
...effectively fought F.D.R.'s effort to pack the court. When Roosevelt stood before him to be sworn in for a precedent-breaking third term, Hughes whispered through his beard: "Franklin, isn't this becoming a trifle monotonous?" A few months later, at 79, he resigned as Chief Justice and retired to a quiet life of quiet honors...
...airlift itself, partly as a result of stupid Communist mistakes. On the surface, last week's Red-staged "riots" in Berlin seemed to have paralyzed the bravely anti-Communist city assembly; underneath, they bore evidence that the Communist position in Germany was slipping. TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes watched the signs and symptoms. He cabled...
...full general when he returned. Under a new military law, he was entitled to the promotion because of his World War II service as Minister of War, but had modestly refrained from signing his own promotion papers. Acting President Nereu Ramos took care of that chore in his chief's absence...