Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with how more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power into the framework of the cherished U.S. system of free enterprise...
...Approved a bill strengthening the hand of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (see Armed Forces) by giving him specific "direction, authority and control" over the armed forces instead of "general" authority previously granted. It would set up a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the principal military adviser to the President and the Defense Secretary, but giving him no vote on the JCS. The bill also limits the power of the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries to appeal over the Defense Secretary's head to the President. The House has not yet acted, and seemed...
...victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" An honor guard of Marine riflemen fired three sharp volleys over the plain white wooden marker: "James V. Forrestal, Lieut. U.S.N." and a Marine bugler sounded taps. In the crowd of departing mourners, hat in hand, went the man who had begun to carry on from the point where the doughty, dedicated spirit of James Forrestal had finally given...
...Carroll Cone, an assistant vice president of Pan American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...
...riding home from a union session, accompanied by two bodyguards, in the armored car the union recently bought for him. At Redford Receiving Hospital he comforted 37-year-old Vic while the doctors pumped four pints of blood into him. "Remember, Vic," said Walter, "how you held my hand a year ago. Now I'm holding yours. Keep fighting, Vic, keep fighting." Vic mumbled, "Look after the kids . . . and Sophie." At Henry Ford Hospital, where he was transferred a few hours later, doctors dug six pieces of lead out of his body and removed his right...