Word: leaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major problem of a Secretary of the Air Force is the division of his loyalties between his superiors and the service which he heads," W. Barton Leach '21, Story Professor of Law said yesterday. He should solve this problem, Leach stated, by being a loyal subordinate, while, at the same time, making a forceful presentation of the interests of his service to Congressional investigating Committees...
...Leach delivered his ideas of what a Secretary of the Air Force should be and do, in a talk to Army and Navy ROTC students. He spoke in the second person, as if to an appointee for the post. Leach ventured the opinion that his observations, were 98 per cent applicable to the Secretaries of the other service departments...
Both Huntington and Leach, however, voiced some skepticism. Leach thought that the defense budget would have to be raised to give Dr. Killian sufficient funds. Huntington pointed out that "these special assistants have a long tradition of futility and frustration since they are out of the official hierarchary...
...Barton Leach '21, Story Professor of Law and member of the Defense Studies Program, stated that "it is a fine thing, provided that when his recommendations are made they are not blocked by an absence of adequate funds...
...Leach, who had advocated a larger defense budget in a speech last week, pointed out that the restoration of this money merely means that cuts will be made elsewhere in the defense budget. "You don't solve anything by robbing Peter to pay Paul," he said...