Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spokesmen for all three cities also pointed out that their citizens had given generously to the Red Cross year after year...
Carter Higgins, chairman of the Worces ter Red Cross chapter, said dourly: "We can't condone the National's ineptness in public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...
...opposed the hydrogen bomb. What he was against, he insisted, was a "crash program" to build the bomb in a hurry, with very high priorities which he felt might inter fere with A-bomb production. But he ran into difficulty as Security Board Counsel Robb cross-examined...
...lied repeatedly in the past about important security matters. What he said in the hearing caused the board to comment, mildly enough, that Oppenheimer was even now being "less than candid." The most telling example of Oppenheimer's past capacity for untruths was drawn out in cross-examination about his relationships with his good friend Haakon Chevalier, a linguist who was once a professor at the University of California...
Counsel for Oppenheimer declined to cross-examine Borden, on the ground that what he had submitted was not evidence but his own conclusions. On that point Security Board Chairman Gordon Gray agreed, asserting that the board "has no evidence before it that Dr. Oppenheimer . . . has been functioning as an espionage agent...