Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Captain Burke drove ahead at flank speed. Under a promise from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson of no reprisals, he testified before the House Armed Services Committee last October, presented a dispassionate defense of the Navy's cherished supercarrier which Johnson had summarily ordered abandoned soon after the keel had been laid...
When Admiral Louis Denfeld, who also took his stand against Defense Secretary Johnson and the workings of the unification act, was summarily fired as Chief of Naval Operations last October, he was offered another post: command of U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Last week, in a blistering letter, mild "Uncle Louie" Denfeld told Navy Secretary Francis Matthews he was turning down the job and announced he was considering retirement from the Navy. Wrote Denfeld...
With the Government asking the questions, husky, big-jawed Manning R. Johnson made an effective prosecution witness in the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges. But when the defense began to prod him last week, Ex-Communist Johnson made an even better...
...present law, passed in 1948, expires on June 24. Johnson wants it extended to June 30, 1953 and says that Secretary of State Dean Acheson, the National Security Resources Board, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the three branches of the armed forces all favor such an extension...
...military forces want a standing Selective Service system even though the draft itself may be dead, so that they will be able to draft people quickly should a new crisis arise. Johnson said that "if the draft machinery is allowed to stop it would take four months to reactivate it in case of emergency...