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...Dwight Eisenhower's budget; the proposed cut in Air Force funds was the clumsy work of inexperienced and economy-minded civilians, e.g., Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, Deputy Secretary Roger M. Kyes and Assistant Secretary Wilfred McNeil. After the line was laid down by Texas Democrat George Mahon, other Democrats promptly began to walk it. Then, like a schoolteacher wiping a misspelled word off the blackboard, Kansas' matter-of-fact Errett Power Scrivner erased the line with one swipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personal Endorsement | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Best Plays (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Madwoman of Chaillot, with Aline Ma-Mahon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Nov. 17, 1952 | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Lord Mahon, History of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Education of a General | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...critic thus singled out was TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot, eight of whose ten choices are reproduced on this page. (Not shown: John Marin's Sun, Isles, and Sea and Thomas Eakins' Mrs. Edith Mahon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...goal of the Pentagon top brass is to keep peace among the three services by apportioning the cuts more or less equally while Mahon's committee strikes a "happy medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Unhappy Medium | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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