Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thought for a minute that it was going to see a fist fight between Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne Hays and New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski. Trouble started when Hays accused Lieut. General (ret.) Joseph M. Swing, the U.S. Immigration Commissioner, of "arrogance," said he had been warned not to cross Swing lest the commissioner interfere with Hays's efforts to get citizenship for his adopted two-year-old German daughter. Cried Hays: "I will guarantee that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able...
...summary dismissal of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb by Jordan's King Hussein, the rioting on Cyprus, the general state of things on the Mediterranean rim, seemed to have aroused Britain to its suddenly perilous position in the Middle East. Reports of Egyptian officers training in Poland, of heavy shipments of Soviet arms brought renewed doubts that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well...
...have all heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," writes Lieut. General Sir John Bagot Glubb, recently sacked commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, "but we do not seem really to have taken it to heart." Deprived of his sword by the young King of Jordan, whose family he had served since 1930, Glubb last week in Surrey, England, took...
...Died. Lieut, (j.g.) David Greig ("Skippy") Browning Jr., 24, star of the 1952 Olympics as the U.S.'s dazzling three-meter diving champion, national collegiate one-and three-meter diving champ (1951-52); in the crash of a North American FJ-3 Fury jet fighter while on a training flight; near Rantoul, Kans...
...Still too much of an untouchable to get competition from ordinary amateurs, Marine Lieut. Wes Santee ran against only two others in a special mile at the Milwaukee Journal games, won in the slow time...