Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reluctantly, Acheson agreed to think it over. For a week he had sent his most eloquent lieutenants up Capitol Hill to argue for the bill exactly as it stood. Even General George Marshall had come out of retirement to give his measured, unequivocal assurance that the arms program stood foursquare with EGA and the Atlantic Treaty...
Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to his own appraisal, he was also a great friend of the President, even had a White House pass (since revoked...
...went to Athens as a U.S. employee of the Allied Mission which supervised Greek elections. His progress was noisy. In Rome he got into a street argument with a U.S. Air Forces officer, Brig. General William L. Lee, and was slapped in the face for his pains. (The general was shortly reduced in rank.) In Athens Maragon announced himself as Harry Truman's great friend, waved a picture of himself and the President, and was finally ordered home as a nuisance...
...microphone suddenly was silent. "The damned thing's dead," shouted the host, but he went on anyway. "Sam Rayburn is a great man; he has a heart as big as the state of Texas." Some big brass-Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...
...important for everyone to know, the Cardinal's statement said, just what the Catholics were and were not asking for. "We are not asking for general public support of religious schools . . . Under the Constitution we do not ask nor can we expect public funds to pay for the construction or repair of parochial school buildings, or for the support of teachers...