Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history-the class struggle, the search for markets and profits. The history of Japan in modern times has been one of economic oppression at home and aggression abroad." But was that not a rather sweeping generalization? asked the father. Replied the teacher: "I'm only repeating what General MacArthur said...
Such is the regard in which he is held in the Senate that he is continually nominated for key bipartisan jobs-flying around the world to inspect World War II battle points, skillfully presiding over the explosive, eight-week Senate investigation into Harry Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur, etc. Twice-in 1951 and 1953-the Senate Democratic leadership was offered him, and twice he gracefully declined. "I'm more concerned with my own thinking," he said, "than with the Democratic Party nationally...
Nattily rigged in a Panama hat, General Douglas MacArthur led his wife and 19-year-old son Arthur (who will be a sophomore at Columbia) 30 blocks from their Manhattan apartment to a hotel ballroom rented by Sperry Rand, the firm he heads as board chairman. There, for an hour and a quarter, Five-Star Taxpayer MacArthur lectured stockholders on the evils of confiscatory taxes: "The present tax structure is probably adequate to socialize the United States. The budget is but the guesswork of a small group of individuals, temporarily gathered in Washington, whose previous training and experience has little...
...found that Murai and 36 of his 40 employees were hard-shell Communists, and that, thanks to the astute Murai's maneuvering, the seemingly respectable Nippon Institute was now Communist-controlled. Last week, confronted with the facts, Murai confessed that the party, hard pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies on credit, sell goods quickly for all the. cash they could get, and funnel the money into the party chest. Their first move in what they called "Operation Truck Corps" was to get control...
...Young Stranger. A teen-ager studies parental delinquency; with James MacArthur, James Daly, Kim Hunter (TIME...