Word: clark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said he received an FBI report on White on Feb. 6, 1946, after the Senate had confirmed his new appointment. On receiving the dossier, he reportedly conferred with State Secretary James Byrnes and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson. Vinson then went into a huddle with Hoover and Attorney General Tom Clark. All three agreed White was "unfit for service...
Since the FBI's evidence against White was not sufficient to indict him at that time, Hoover spoke of three alternatives Vinson and Clark planned to present to Truman: 1) Fire White without explanation; 2) Ask him to resign without explanation; 3) Allow him to take the new post, while the Attorney General continued the investigation and the Treasury Secretary supervised the appointment of reliable men around White. Truman adopted the last alternative, but White somehow was permitted to surround himself with suspected Communists...
Parked on Clark. One of the best is Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines. Historian Morton, 39, chief of the Pacific section of the Army's historical department, is no Samuel Eliot Morison or S. L. A. Marshall (The River and the Gauntlet), but he writes with the quiet authority of a man who spent 1943-45 in the South Pacific and the Philippines, spent a lot of further time digging through Army files, private letters and diaries, and personally interviewing survivors. His book builds to a melancholy climax, from the bombing of Clark Field through...
...were B-17s and P-40s neatly parked on Clark Field for Japanese bombers to pick off hours after Air Chief "Hap" Arnold had alerted responsible officers to the news of Pearl Harbor, and 45 minutes after air spotters had radioed reports of approaching Japanese planes? Historian Morton's best guess: fouled-up communications, command indecision. The cost: 99 planes destroyed out of a total of 277, and the offensive power of the Air Force in the Philippines crippled. Some matters Historian Morton resolves plainly and bluntly. The Philippine army, constituting more than half of MacArthur...
...Journals of Lewis and Clark. The engrossing story of the first exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, skillfully culled by Bernard DeVoto from the original seven volumes (TIME...