Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with few exceptions, the Negro in uniform still had to eat Jim Crow and live in a second-class world. Prodded again by the White House, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson ordered the Army, Navy & Air Force to tell what they had done to carry out the Commander in Chief's order. Last week the answers were...
...Among them was Clifford M. Holland, the tunnel project's chief engineer, who died of strain and overwork three years before the great bore was completed...
Greece and stay out-forever." The Communist radio called him "Chief Butcher Van Fleet...
...Mother, God & the U.S." This week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect...
...month before the election, Vargas suddenly installed his unpopular brother, Benjamin Vargas, as police chief. Dutra and Góes Monteiro decided that Vargas was preparing to cancel the elections. They staged a coup of their own which abruptly ended Vargas' 15-year rule. Chief Justice José Linhares became acting President until the election, which Dutra won by just over a million votes...