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...spoke for thousands on one side of the question: "We must never give up that the military is subject to and under control of the civilian administration." Indiana's Republican Senator William Jenner reflected the reaction of thousands who took the other side: "Our only choice is to impeach President Truman." But beyond, between and around these two predictable reactions were some noteworthy variations. Examples...
...Appropriate panels will also take up the problems of teenage girls, the beauty industry, U.S. music. M.O.T.'s television unit has plans for a ballet show (to be filmed in Paris), an afternoon program for women, a series of dramatized incidents from U.S. history, e.g., the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson. M.O.T.'s first series, the 26-week, prize-winning Crusade in Europe, is currently making its third successive TV run. In preparation for fall issue: a TV version of the war with Japan, Crusade in the Pacific...
Republicans lifted their voices with renewed vigor against Secretary Acheson. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy sounded a new dramatic note. The President should sanction the use of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops in Korea, he cried, or Congress should "immediately impeach" Harry Truman...
...Philippines. Said a Manila storekeeper: "It's a labulabu, a national free-for-all." President Quirino wanted a chance to put his country's affairs in order. Said he: "I want to have the opportunity to clean my own house. If I fail. Congress can impeach me for non-compliance with my duty under the constitution...
Judge Samuel Kaufman had barred him from testifying at the first trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy had objected to his testifying this time. "This is the first time in the history of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that psychiatric testimony has been allowed to impeach a witness," Murphy pointed out. But Federal Judge Henry Goddard waved Murphy aside. Perhaps such testimony had never been admitted in a federal court but it had been in state courts, said the judge. So Dr. Binger was allowed to talk. He was there to attack the credibility of the Government's chief witness...