Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word message to the President, Forrestal urged top priority for legislation which would permit the President to send "military assistance" anywhere overseas. Such authority to act without reference back to Congress should be so general that arms (but not men) could be sent to any country "with international interests similar to those of the U.S." The best guess of what it would cost was $1 billion this year, billions more later...
Congress hadn't given him enough authority to knock heads together, Forrestal said. Congress had empowered him only to set "general policies and programs," and to exercise "general direction, authority and control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
...Year's Day there were other difficulties-dozens of war brides and fiancees had been delayed enroute to the U.S., and had not managed to arrive before the deadline. But at week's end, Attorney General Tom Clark solved the problem nicely with a wide, romantic gesture. He gave the fiancees eight more days to get to the promised land...
When box-jawed U.S. Lieut. General John Hodge moved his occupation troops into Korea in 1945 his program was: clean up the Japs; set up a free government; get out. Hodge's Soviet opposite number, Colonel General Ivan Chistyakov, whose forces held Korea north of the 38th parallel, had different orders: set up a Communist police state; build up a powerful native army; then...
Applications for the general examination, which closes January 20, must be made to the Civil Service regional office in Boston...