Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course General de Gaulle and I have agreed long since that at the first opportunity we would talk together [on] all of the matters where we don't quite see eye to eye . . . and see if we can do something about it," said the President at his press conference. Secretary of State Herter, on the road to Geneva, would probably sound out De Gaulle on coming to the U.S. Some U.S. authorities believe that De Gaulle may stall until the French test-fire their first atom bomb in the Sahara this summer, and can thus enter NATO...
...other star to testify was Admiral Arthur Radford, who retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really...
...general court-martial, Huller pleaded guilty of graft, had his three-year hard-labor sentence reduced to a year and a half and a bad-conduct discharge. But Coogan, ever the operator even in the stockade awaiting trial, was caught trying to tamper with one of the witnesses, slapped with 15 years' hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. The system out of which the sergeant and the specialist made a flourishing business, said the Army hopefully, had been forever thwarted by a new assignment system, controlled directly from Washington...
...appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation as a whole. Last week, as the biggest union of all-the powerful (1,300,000 members) Transport and General Workers-met for its biennial conference on the Isle of Man, Gaitskell's problems seemed weightier than ever...
Down with Unity. Britain faces a general election between now and next spring, and Gaitskell needs a unified party. He has held it together by unexciting compromises. This is not fiery enough stuff for cocky Frank Cousins, the ambitious boss of the Transport Workers, who by the peculiarity of labor voting, controls a bloc of 1,000,000 out of 6,800,000 votes at Labor Party conventions. Before a wildly cheering conference last week, Cousins baldly threatened the unity of the entire Labor Party by demanding immediate renunciation of the H-bomb. He further denounced the extent of Labor...