Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doughboys' General. After the war, the cumbersome, clique-ridden Veterans Administration was handed to him; he made sense out of its sprawling bureaucracy, returned to active military service and succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as Chief of Staff. Over the years Omar Bradley, the man who never raised his voice, never mixed in service feuds, had won the solid admiration of everybody from plain soldiers (who called him the doughboys' general) to Government bureaucrats, to his fellow generals. The Third Army's brilliant, fractious George Patton, one of his subordinates, once told him: "Between my screwy ideas and your...
...anyone could translate unification from a revered cliche into an accomplished fact, Omar Nelson Bradley seemed the man...
They were dangerous men to tangle with. There was no Senator who did not have federal projects in mind-rivers, harbors, post offices, federal buildings-which needed the approval of vitriolic old Kenneth McKellar, a man who never forgives and never forgets. There was hardly a Senator who was not also thinking about some patronage jobs-a federal judgeship, a spot as U.S. attorney-or some legal claim in his own state. All such matters have to be approved by Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee. And McCarran was also McKellar's right bower on the Appropriations Committee...
...session long, McCarran had bottled up in his Judiciary Committee the liberalized D.P. bill which the Administration was determined to push through before adjournment. Under the pretense of looking into subversive aliens in the U.S., McCarran had run a one-man filibuster, playing back the undocumented allegations of such old Un-American Activities Committee favorites as Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, baying off onto the subject of spies in the U.N. secretariat. McCarran was in a hurry to admit only one set of immigrants: 250 sheepherders to solve a labor shortage in his own state of Nevada...
...lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked in French whether this man Layton really deserved their vote, and a British Tory replied suavely: "Ah, mais oui, c'est un brave-he's a good...