Word: kilmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Zwicker, commander of Camp Kilmer, N.J. and wartime Battle of the Bulge hero, annoyed McCarthy in early 1954 by okaying an honorable discharge for an Army dentist with Communist ties. McCarthy called him "not fit to wear that uniform," hounded him so unendurably in committee hearings and on the Senate floor that the Army counterattacked in the battle that led to the Senate resolution censuring McCarthy in December 1954. Zwicker is now a major general, commander of the XX Reserve Corps. *The nays, aside from Morse: Alaska's E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John...
When these interviews were finished, they were taken to Camp Kilmer, a large former army barracks in New Jersey that had been outfitted to provide the most pleasant interlude possible before the Hungarians were settled in their new homes. Kilmer was a great improvement over the Austrian camps, both because of its better facilities and because the refugees there knew that it would be only a matter of days before they would be permanently settled...
...Kilmer was outfitted with recreation halls, movies, good food, and comfortable barracks, which were "pleasant and warm," Fenyvesi recalls. "Everybody said 'That's America.'" he added. He was assigned to "a typical American family" in Washington: "a husband, a wife, two kids, one cocker spaniel, and a turtle." Others were assigned to similar places, or stayed with relatives...
...atom-bomb physicist), Edward Teller ("Father of the H-bomb") and the late great Mathematician John von Neumann (an Atomic Energy commissioner) were all Hungarian-born. So when refugees began streaming out of rebellious Hungary last year, the National Academy of Sciences set up an office at Camp Kilmer, N.J. and sent an expeditionary force to Austria to help educated Hungarians find jobs...
Last week, in its News Report, the academy proudly reported how it had found jobs for more than 500 well-schooled Hungarians who had come to Camp Kilmer. About 20% were scientists; most of the rest were engineers or had medical training. Their ages generally fell between 25 and 35. Medical men, lawyers and a few other professionals were hard to place in U.S. jobs. But the academy found that man-hungry U.S. industry and education were eager to take the scientists off its hands. In spite of language difficulties, one research chemist dropped into an industrial...