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...Florida primary, kept hammering away at Kefauver's sponsorship of Atlantic Union: "It will be a blow to the cause of liberty around the world to submerge the sovereignty of the U.S. with other nations." On his first day, Russell spoke to 7,500 in Gainesville, Ocala, Leesburg and Orlando, finished with a bright pink case of sunburn on his bald head. He planned 30 speeches in ten days...
...told the reporters. But at midsummer it would have been a "very bad business for me to drop out" because of "the state of legislation on the Hill." Now, at 70-after 50 years of public life since his commissioning as a second lieutenant-he was retiring to his Leesburg, Va. home for "very personal reasons." His successor was his longtime associate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Abercrombie Lovett-"Nobody else in the United States will have his understanding and competence...
Political Career: Twelve weeks after V-J day, Marshall retired to Leesburg, Va., but was just unpacking his automobile when Harry Truman, who considers him the "greatest living American," asked him to go to China as a special representative, with the rank of ambassador. His mission: to unify the Nationalists and Communists. The mission failed; Marshall returned to the U.S. Jan. 19, 1947, was appointed Secretary of State and confirmed unanimously by the Senate within an hour. Best-known action as Secretary: the Marshall Plan. Resigned after two years because of illness. Summoned from retirement a second time on Sept...
Several weeks ago, Mr. Truman got in touch with George Marshall. Marshall had resigned as Secretary of State because of ill health in 1949. Since then, fully recovered, he had been serving energetically as president of the American Red Cross, living on his Leesburg, Va. estate. The President asked the general if he would take the job. Marshall asked his wife what she thought of his becoming Secretary of Defense. Mrs. Marshall did not mind a bit; it was just the general's sort of thing, she thought. Quite happily, George Marshall accepted...
...acres are stocked with white-face Hereford cattle and Arabian horses which pay its running expenses. Godfrey, a licensed airman with more than 4,000 flying hours, commutes from New York in his Navion and twin-engine Beech planes, and always buzzes Beacon Hill before landing at nearby Leesburg. He spends about half of each week in the comfortable house, often sprawled on a sofa in T-shirt and slacks, watching rival comics on TV and dozing through "intellectual" shows...