Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing unobtrusively in the background at the signing ceremony was the man who next day became the first permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Nelson Bradley. Never before had the nation given one military man a post of such responsibility and influence...
Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
Republican Policy Chairman Robert Taft agreed. Six Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be the first real setback McCarran and McKellar had met since they set out to crack the whip over the Senate...
...such a ripe age. It was natural that Herbert Clark Hoover's 75th birthday last week should become something of an occasion. A controversial figure, Herbert Hoover, for many U.S. citizens, was still the symbol of inaction in a great national emergency and thus a symbol of the first Depression. For many others, the elder statesman who, in his 703 had labored long to reorganize sprawling U.S. Government departments, was a living expression of such old-fashioned virtues as simplicity, sanity and thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys' clubs and European foreign offices poured...
...LeMay, "I don't think the question whether it can be shot down enters in-it's whether you can penetrate to and destroy a target with acceptable losses . . . If called on to fight, I'll order out the B-36 crews and be in the first plane myself...