Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-engined planes for short hauls), the President has wanted to beat his traffic problem by using a helicopter to take him directly from the White House to the airport-and even as far as his Gettysburg farm. The White House last week announced that Ike had given the green light for helicopter test flights to and from the White House's south lawn in preparation for a regular service...
More damaging to the Guard's official stand was the 49th's commander. Major General Roy A. Green, 59, a dentist on the outside, who stood before the subcommittee while he blasted eleven weeks' training as "absolutely inadequate." In his own division, said Green, he accepts enlistments only if the enlistees agree to sign up for six months' training-and "we are gaining strength; we are gaining proficiency." One reason for his insistence on adequate training: as a regimental commander on Okinawa in 1945, he had taken on replacements with only six to eight weeks...
...bonus for six-month volunteers, i.e., instead of spending the remainder of their eight-year military obligation in the Guard, they could shift after three years to the Standby Reserve. Largely amenable to the compromise. Guard officers were nevertheless rankled by the Army's permitting Generals Guerard and Green to testify. Snapped Walsh: "The Army is guilty of playing dirty pool. We would never demean ourselves by asking an Army regular officer to testify for our side...
...passes for the public galleries, the first sign of dying zombiism was the seating of the 457 Deputies. In previous parliaments the few non-Communist Deputies had been isolated and surrounded by Communists. This time each Deputy filing into the semicircular chamber took his place on the green seats with others of his party: 237 Communists on the left, 118 Peasant Party members in the center, then 39 Democratic Party members, and on the right twelve Catholic and 51 unaffiliated Deputies. U.S. television crews swarmed over the floor. The first sign of change came in the voting...
...H.D.C.'s equipment had to be moved from Big Tree into Dudley recently to make way for the Alumni Archives. H.D.C. president David E. Green '58, who estimated the damage at $750, said that the major loss was a lighting board used by the Club's electricians. The Buildings and Grounds Department could give no estimate of the loss suffered by the University...