Word: florida
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Beyond the Perimeter. This weird policy drew increasing criticism. The Joint Chiefs of Staff objected to it. General Douglas MacArthur objected. And so did Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. In January 1950, Johnson having gone off to sun himself in Florida, Dean Acheson fenced the military men back into their Pentagon dugouts, got Harry Truman to overrule a Joint Chiefs of Staff decision to strengthen Formosa. Said Truman: "The U.S. Government will not provide military aid or advice to the Chinese forces on Formosa." Acheson sealed the policy in his National Press Club speech of Jan. 12, 1950, which placed Formosa...
This week James Van Fleet, slated for retirement on March 31, was getting ready to go home to his small orange grove in Florida.* Said U.N. Commander Mark Clark: "General Van Fleet has earned the gratitude of his country and of the free world...
...When Van Fleet sang the praises of Florida at a press conference last week, a puzzled British correspondent asked: "Where is that?" The general gave him a couple of quick coordinates. "The other end from Maine and across from California," he said...
...when he got himself named Under Secretary of the Navy on the recommendation of Harry Truman's crony, White House Aide Donald Dawson. Whitehair was not a hit with the admirals, who thought that he neglected the Navy in favor of politics in his home state of Florida. They were scandalized when he gave an $11,800-a-year job to William E. Willett, another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance. He told one admiral: "When you come in here...
...could hold her own with the nation's best women players. Althea, then 22, reached the finals of her first National Indoor championship before losing to Nancy Chaffee. Fast improving with the chance to play against topflight competition, Althea went on to win the Good Neighbor Tournament (in Florida) and an international invitation tournament (in Germany). Last week, already enjoying a No. 9 national ranking, Althea became the first of her race to win another honor: No. 1 ranking from the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association...