Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interservice committee, under the chairmanship of the Army's Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray, recommended that the air and ground forces of the state-controlled National Guard be merged with the federally controlled Organized Reserve Corps into a single, federal reserve arm for each service. In place of the guard, each state would raise its own militia unit, as it did in wartime...
Tennessee voters, casting the biggest primary vote in the state's history, gave the last of the big city bosses a terrific pasting. They gleefully smothered his handpicked candidates and nominated two of his archenemies-Gordon Browning for Governor and Estes Kefauver for U.S. Senator...
...afternoon session on the convention's last day, after the party's platform has been drawn up, Gordon Fogo will read the names of the nominees to the convention. He hopes to read the names fast enough to block any unseemly demonstration. Says Fogo in a political paraphrase of a classic line: "In my job you have to be like Caesar's wife, playing no favorites...
Finally, the assembly heard reports on the work of missions sent out by the interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be shot down like ducks by anybody with a gun on a hill [but] the rebels even sent guides through the lines to our spraying teams, asking them to come up and spray rebel-held villages." In China, a WHO mission, with authorization of the Central government, is working in Communist...
Died. Elmer Lincoln Irey, 60, founder and longtime boss of the U.S. Treasury's sleuthing T-men, nemesis of such bigtime racketeers as Al Capone and Waxey Gordon; of coronary thrombosis; in Shady Side, Md. Promoted to chief coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units in 1937, he retired in 1946, collaborated on the Hollywood production...