Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised and quite thrilled when I looked at the picture of General Eisenhower visiting my old regiment prior to our jump into Normandy. I was standing just behind the naval officer when the picture was taken, and I had not yet blackened my face for the jump...
...learned to use the veto-and threats of veto-effectively. Strongly supported by Republicans in House and Senate, and also by the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Kentucky's Thruston Morton, the President holds the initiative. Since the Gallup polls have shown the Republican Party in general to be slipping badly (TIME, June 8), the Democratic liberals want to build a record by challenging Ike; Rayburn and Johnson want to ride with...
Neither critical opinion, nor press censure, nor threat of legal action, nor the embarrassment of looking a little stuffy last week stayed Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield from swiftly reaching a foregone conclusion: The unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is "an obscene and filthy work," and may not be sent through the U.S. mails. He thus continued a 30-year ban, and backed up New York Post Office operatives who vigilantly followed the old ruling last month by seizing 164 copies...
...played round games with the lady of the manor, pointed out its philosophical overtones (nature v. civilization), granted its explicit language on sex (mild by the standards of many a modern bestseller), but professed to see not even a quiver of prurience in the book. As for the Postmaster General, he sat down to read the novel himself, concluded: "The book is replete with descriptions in minute detail of sexual acts, utilizing filthy, offensive and degrading words and terms. Any literary merit the book may have is far outweighed by the pornographic and smutty passages and words." Summerfield leaned heavily...
Lady, meanwhile, climbed up the bestseller list and-with the Postmaster General's own review in its scrapbook-would climb higher. Some 70,000 copies were in print at week's end, and Grove was moving them by every means except dog team. The outlook: more publicity, more sales this week, when the publisher seeks an injunction against the postmaster of New York. As for Postmaster General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris...