Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army & Navy also had to practice a little self-denial on orders of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, pressing his own campaign to trim expenses $800 million. Johnson ordered the mothballing of 77 Navy ships, including two medium-and three small-sized aircraft carriers, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, nine submarines. Navy manpower would be cut 55,000 to 461,000. The Army announced that all 24,000 of the current draftees would be released after completing a year's service, and no more would be called in the "foreseeable future." The Army had to squeeze within a budget...
...effects of the President's decision rumbled off much farther than the Pentagon Building. He was immediately accused-most heatedly by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson-of taking reprisals against Denfeld for his testimony before the committee, though witnesses had been guaranteed safe conduct by Louis Johnson himself. Others complained that in the summary manner of firing, the Admiral had been unnecessarily humiliated...
...tiny Jefferson became big news for the first time since Lafayette. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith denounced the gift as "probably the most vicious use of wealth that our generation has seen." The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League petitioned Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson to remove the school from the list of preparatory schools whose curriculums are acceptable to West Point...
...other members of the executive board named last night are: Ernest T. Berkeley, Jr., John S. Hermann, Richard E. Johnson, Stephen I. Rudin, Daniel J. Young, and George C. Viahos...
Score (Varsity)--Harvard 41, Princeton 11; Harvard 39, Yale 20; Princeton 22, Yale 23. Winner, Johnson (P); Mearns (Y); Gilette (P); Wittreich (P); Ware (Y); Pittis (P); Foley (Y); Gregory (H): Leeming (H); Snedeker (P); Effinger (Y); Cairns (H). Time...