Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisions (or parts of divisions) in Korea-the and, 24th and 25th Infantry, the ist Cavalry, the 1st Marine-plus the 5th RCT (regimental combat team) from Hawaii, plus unidentified reinforcements which went into the line last week. The South Koreans had five divisions more on the line. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, revealed that thousands of marines were en route from the U.S. The first ground troops from other United Nations were also en route...
...President "ought to have the chance to vote for the man of his choice." Hennings countered that the right of free primaries was at stake, and pointed to his liberal record as a Congressman (A.F.L. President William Green told his unionists: "I can say he was your friend"). Governor Forrest Smith and St. Louis' Mayor Joseph Darst decided to stick with Harry Truman. "I ain't going to bite the hand that feeds me," said...
...Truman's rebuff was possibly the Democrats' gain-Hennings looked like a better campaigner than Allison against the Republicans' Senator Forrest Donnell, an earnest, hair-splitting legalist in the Senate (where he is known as "The Big Itch"), but a cracker-barrel, Bible-quoting spellbinder along Missouri's back roads...
...minute," he shouted. Then Ken Wherry politely stood back while 30 hushed and awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman and Generals Omar Bradley, Hoyt Vandenberg and Lightnin' Joe Collins rose to bow as Wherry introduced them. Then, Wherry led the girls out again, and the committee settled down to talk about the fate of the Western world...
...commercial airliners out of the Far East carrying hundreds of civilian evacuees. Two airborne arrivals flew directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds breached the 24th Division's line along the Kum River (see WAR IN ASIA), Collins and Vandenberg landed in Washington with this word for reporters: "Our troops are doing damn well and everything will come...