Word: majored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no doubt that Major General Vaughan has "used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics," but the responsibility for this . . . rests not with Vaughan but with his boss, who, incidentally, is no innocent babe in the political woods...
...cheery on the subject of his bumbling military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who stood dully behind him at the press conference. "Mr. President, do you contemplate any change in your military aide?" he was asked. I do not, said Harry Truman. When another reporter tried to get in a further question, the President said sharply that the committee hearing was held down at the Capitol: we will not continue it up here. And that...
...first glance last week, Major General Vaughan seemed to have resigned himself to a roasting. As he entered the jammed committee room it was possible to conclude that only by oversight had he failed to put parsley over his ears and an apple in his mouth. His 240-lb. torso was encased in lashings of brass, gold braid, ribbons and other ceremonial military finery, and he eyed the investigating committee nervously, as if he expected each man to pull on a chef's hat and test him with a fork...
...thousands of people. He blandly admitted that he had sent officials of California's Tanforan Race Track to see Housing Expediter Tighe Woods, when they needed scarce building materials, that he had helped Chicago Perfume Importer David Bennett get to Europe during the war, that he had asked Major General Alden H. Waitt, suspended chief of the Chemical Corps, to write a "frank expression" on officers who might succeed...
...Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that the new styles were not to be released until Sept. 15. Editor Snow, who was in Paris, hotfooted down to the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, ruling body of the major French fashion houses, to find out what had happened...