Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship. Whatever the final outcome of the investigation, it had already defined the kind of dank atmosphere in which Vaughan's good friend Hunt and his colleagues had operated. If Vaughan himself had done nothing worse, he had used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship...
...longest throw in Academy history. A stateside captain in World War I, he spent the "next 25 years trying to explain why I didn't get overseas." He began World War II as a division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month. Ernie Pyle broke his own ban against writing about Army brass to eulogize this general with the schoolmasterish manner, "so unanimously loved...
...with Tommy guns and tear gas, red-capped Special Police roared up to the campus, but found nothing to do-although the students were cutting classes, they were causing no trouble. Bored, the cops drifted over to the university football field. Students invited them to get up a team. Final score: Students 4, Police...
...final days of training, Charles was reported to be peeved at Eagan, disturbed over the prospect of a small gate,* and annoyed over ruckuses among his backers. Among other indignities, sport-writers had taken to calling him "Snooks," a nickname they thought aptly distinguished him from the "Maulers" and "Bombers" of the hard-punching past...
Warren pinned most of the blame for overpayments on the Contract Settlement Act of 1944, which permitted Government agencies to settle contracts in full before final auditing by Warren's office. He had long advocated part payments, up to 75%, before final auditing. As it was, Warren had recovered $474,717 in "voluntary" rebates from overpaid contractors. More might have been recovered, he said, if Government contract agencies had rot "devoted their efforts to defending the excessive settlements." Last week, as Warren turned his evidence over to the Department of Justice for prosecution, Congress ordered an investigation...