Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defy the U.S. Government. Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor called Fort Campbell, Ky. and assigned the 327th Battle Group of his old outfit, the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, to bring law to Little Rock. Tough, battle-tried Major General Edwin Walker was placed in command of all troops in the Arkansas district. Air Force Secretary James Douglas soon had eight C-130 and 38 C-123 transport planes on the way from Tennessee to Fort Campbell...
...nation: "The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the executive branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts, even, when necessary, with all the means at the President's command. Unless the President did so, anarchy would result...
Third Party? In the South, furious Democrats first lashed at Ike, then almost as quickly at their Northern cousins. One of the loudest spokesmen was South Carolina's jaded Jimmy Byrnes. Attorney General Brownell had pushed Ike into action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats...
...Another officer had an idea: "Why not turn on the television set?" A set was wheeled up, flicked on, and promptly revealed members of the 101st Airborne Division stiffly at parade rest outside a peaceful Central High School. Brucker grunted with satisfaction. Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor, onetime commander of the 101st, peered hard at the soldiers. "They look good, sharp," he said, then broke out unbelievingly: "Why, there's one man whose belt is undone!" After a harder look, Taylor decided that the man was off duty, resting for a moment behind a tree, and the general...
...Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band and Highland dancers of Scotland's own Black Watch, under the command of Major Claud MacBeth Moir...