Word: delbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they voted to back ex-Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, 35, for the Senate seat. For good measure, they also turned thumbs down on brindled Governor Walter S. Goodland, 83, whose crotchety independence has irked many an old-line party man. For his place, they endorsed gladhanding, grey-haired Delbert J. Kenny, a former state Legion commander...
...situation called for a court-martial -or a mediator. At week's end, a peacemaker stepped in. Lieut. Colonel A. Delbert Clark, Mediterranean theater public-relations officer and a former New York Timesman, became "senior officer" of Stars and Stripes. The censorship was called off, Major Kestler would stay. Colonel Clark promised that the newspaper would operate "in consonance with the highest standards of American journalism and the Army. . . ." Whether their war with the brass was over or not, staffers figured they had won a skirmish...
With an orientation lecture by Chaplain Ralph C. Delbert, Assistant Commandant, the twentieth session of the Army Chaplain School opened yesterday at 10 o'clock...
Hawaii's Federal Judge Delbert E. Metzger wanted a straight yes or no: Have the Islands' civil authorities any authority or not? Last week he got a fairly straight no: for the present, Hawaii is still very much under martial...
...history of Washington press coverage was told last week in a thorough, readable, thoughtful book* by 37-year-old Delbert Clark, manager for the last eight years of the New York Times's Washington bureau. Less sociological than Leo Rosten's The Washington Correspondents, his book traces the astounding growth of the Washington press corps from the period when two Congressional stenographers served as part-time reporters, to the present when more than 500 elite newsmen enjoy semiofficial status. It does not spare correspondents' vanities and irresponsibilities nor "official efforts to conceal the unpalatable truth." Some...