Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Learned that his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, will not get to wear his medal from Argentina's Juan Peron, after all, because a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee refused to authorize it. The fight over the medal had inspired Truman's "s.o.b." blast at Columnist Drew Pearson...
...Paris, where Dean Acheson had been meeting over the weekend with France's Robert Schuman and Britain's Ernie Bevin, the West announced complete solidarity. Acheson, who is in his first major encounter with the Russians, will presumably carry the ball for the West...
...Back to Your Masters." Tempers on both sides turned ugly. Strikers, armed with crowbars and clubs, battled with the Red strikebreakers. At the Tempelhof station, Major General Pavel A. Kvashnin, Soviet transport chief, barely got away when strikers tried to rough him up amid cries of "Kill him! Hang the fat swine!" When strikers stormed the Schöneberg elevated station, Communist railway police inside unleashed four police dogs. When this did not stop the strikers, the police gave up and were escorted through the crowd, to shouts of "Go back to your Russian masters...
...last and heaviest burden in the destiny of Henri Philippe Petain has been a seemingly interminable life. The officer who waited 44 years to become a major, 62 years to be Marshal of France, 84 years to be chief of the French state, was condemned as a traitor at 89. Today, in his fortress cell at Ile d'Yeu, he waits...
...present fight started with the Key West conferences on unifying the armed forces at the beginning of last fall, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff hashed out the wartime tasks of their respective services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair...