Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a brisk skirmish, confirmed Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark 73 to 8, unanimously approved the nomination of Senator J. Howard McGrath to succeed Clark as Attorney General...
Because of a flagrant violation of war food orders-a little matter of exceeding their quota of rationed molasses by 771,000 gallons in a delivery to the Pepsi-Cola Co.-the Allied company had been denied further supplies. According to testimony heard last week before a Senate subcommittee, General Vaughan had hit on a helpful solution. He called up a young Department of Agriculture administrator named Herbert C. Hathorn and suggested that the whole thing could be fixed nicely by simply giving the company a new allocation of from 500,000 to 1,000,000 gallons...
...stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president that molasses rationing was soon to end. The president, one Harold M. Ross, forthwith bought 500,000 gallons. But the general had been wrong: rationing didn't end at all and Ross was badly stuck. This, Vaughan said significantly, "could prove very embarrassing to me here at the White House...
...asked newsmen and their editors to suspend judgment until Vaughan had himself testified. Most of the hearings, he went on, had been held behind closed doors, "particularly if they were friendly to General Vaughan...
...general had asserted that the deep freezers he wangled for himself and friends were unsalable "factory rejects." Testimony taken in closed sessions established that this simply wasn't so. The closed sessions also turned up a few more details about Albert Verley & Co., the Chicago perfume makers that gave Vaughan the seven deep freezers...