Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, the predicament of Secretary Stevens also serves a purpose. There would have been no need for hearings if President Eisenhower was aware of political realities. In November, he could have given explicit support to the army that produced him by publicly denouncing the distorted picture at Fort Monmouth given by McCarthy. But save for a furtive whisper, the Secretary was left to be devoured by the wolves...
Lundon's statement was in response to a rumor that Schine had been observed by several students at the Yale game. On that weekend, November 21, Schine was on leave from Fort Dix, N.J., to do Senate committee business. This weekend was included on the "black-and-white" chart of Schine's leaves submitted in testimony by the Army in the current hearings and protested as "phony" by Senator Joseph McCarthy...
FRANCES E. TOOHEY Fort...
...about to leave for Dienbienphu. I am sure God will protect me, and the poor soldiers who are waiting to be evacuated surely deserve that every effort should be made to get them out." At 3 a.m. next morning she landed at the besieged fort, still wearing her blue uniform skirt, a lock of hair flopping loosely across her forehead...
...Gamblers & Promoters. When Richardson got out of the Army, he set himself up as a lease trader in Fort Worth. Murchison was only one day home himself when he got a call from his old friend asking him to join him. When Murchison showed up in uniform, Richardson ordered him into civvies. Said he: "If you wear that uniform when we go around to talk to people, they'll want to talk about the war. We aren't talking about anything but oil." Murchison set off for Wichita Falls, where the big play was in an extension...