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...headmaster-to-be, Joseph Stetson, a teacher of science in Washington's Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...
...Elbert E. Duncan...
...some respects, it was even tougher than the House version which the Education and Labor Committee had tried to eviscerate. Committeemen like elderly Senator Elbert Thomas, James E. Murray, James M. Tunnell, Joseph Guffey, Claude Pepper, were routed. The driving forces were Senator Taft and Minnesota's Joe Ball, both pressing for permanent labor legislation which would correct the in equities of the well-meaning but lopsided Wagner...
...Department sent up, and the Senate confirmed, a list of 349 officers for promotion (based on seniority) to the permanent rank of colonel. Among the names: James Alphonse Kilian. Then the Washington Post drew attention to the goings-on at the Lichfield trial. Embarrassed, Utah's Elbert Thomas got the Senate to call the list back. If the Army was embarrassed, it showed no sign...
...question was now before a three-man Senate subcommittee, aided by two of the smartest, fastest-stepping officers going: Major General Lauris Norstad and Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford. The first sessions were passionless, devoted to broad principles and academic details. Utah's professorial Elbert Thomas took a phrase from the preamble to the Constitution to name the unified war machine the "Department of Common Defense." The dogfighting would come when Airman Radford and Airman Norstad tangled over the disposition of the Navy's land-based air forces. Even so, the bill should be ready in six weeks...