Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brownell: I did not impugn his loyalty, and I did not intend to impugn his loyalty...
Sergeant Jessie Arrington, a husky (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) Negro paratrooper from Newport News, Va., was aboard the plane to check the static line and equipment and did not intend to jump. He stayed behind "yelling to everybody we had the long bell" until all jumpers were clear. When he looked out the door, he saw that the plane was only 150 feet from the earth. He was wearing a chute with a hand-operated ripcord. "I looked at the ground and I knew there was no one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three-that...
...Eisenhower trustees intend to start off next fall with about 20 fellows (estimated cost for each: $7,000-$8,000), but hope eventually to have 100 a year. Ike himself was pleased with his birthday present. The program, said he, "can well become the most meaningful thing that has happened in our time...
Caught in a flareback of history, desperate Democrats tried with might & main to wriggle out of the Harry Dexter White scandal. Their line was different from the flat assertions of outrage ("Red herring," "I do not intend to turn my back . . .") that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists...
...vigorous Fiorello LaGuardia tradition, Max Brauer was a good mayor. Pointing to reborn Hamburg, he trumpeted: "My administration has done this. I intend to stay." But this week 66-year-old Max Brauer was out of the Rathaus. In local municipal elections to choose the 120-man Hamburg State Assembly, which in turn selects the mayor, a four-party conservative bloc inched out Brauer's Social Democrats. The coalition won 50% of the vote, and 62 Assembly seats to the Socialists...