Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.). Anderson seems to be merely carrying on his longtime personal vendetta with Strauss. Also working against Strauss: scientists who have never forgiven him for crowbarring Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who fought hard against the H-bomb program in 1949, out of the General Advisory Committee chairmanship...
...Force last week closed its books on the case of the Bumping Colonel and the Angry General. The colonel: Lieut. Colonel Charles Platt Jr., who bulldozed his way onto a Military Air Transport Service plane in Japan last month, unseating half a dozen Stateside-bound G.I.s. The general: Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, boss of U.S. military forces in Japan, who ordered the plane to return to its base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having...
...state senate was due to vote last week on Democratic Governor Gerhard Mennen Williams' latest plan to ease the state's financial troubles, the state treasurer sent each senator a statement of Michigan's obligations and cash in hand. Its net: Michigan, in terms of its general fund, was broke; by month's end there would be no money for 20,000 welfare cases, by May 7 no salaries for state employees, university faculty members, or for the legislators themselves...
...revenue must be spent on the highways. Result: the state must meet costs of state government, the state universities, the state police, the state mental health program, the state's unexpectedly high unemployment welfare payments (current unemployment: 340,000, or 11.5% of the work force) out of a general fund of little more than one-third of total revenue. The recession undercut expected revenues by $43 million...
...moments when it seemed that the senator from the Appomattox District wanted to secede again. Proclaimed Senator Charles T. Moses, waving a portrait of Robert E. Lee astride Traveller: "That's the man for states' rights! He didn't surrender! He just walked in to see General Grant, gave his hat to a courier and said, 'We're out of food!' " The occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond...