Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late summer of 1946, when she wrote to North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, Mrs. Matt Fischer was in what she described as "a desperate situation." She was seven months pregnant with her second child and her husband, an Army staff sergeant, was stationed in Vienna. If she had to have her child at home in Bismarck, N. Dak., it would "take something very vital from [her] marriage." She wanted to join her husband in Vienna...
Deeply touched, the Senator sent letters and telegrams in all directions-to Matt Fischer's C.O. in Austria, to the Department of State, to the War Department-and Mrs. Fischer's "faith in men and angels" was restored. The Army allowed her to fly to Vienna; the baby was born two days after she arrived...
...Chairmen. Green's daughter knew some folks, too. She worked in Matt Connelly's White House office, where she was friendly with Mrs. Merl (mink coat) Young. Called to the stand, Green had to be excused for incoherence. "Have you been drinking anything today?" asked Senator Joe McCarthy. Green replied with the partial admission and justification that has been standard in all phases of the recent hearings: "I had one Martini at lunchtime . . . only one. Is there anything wrong with that...
...bomb, which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights on at night. After first checking the whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes...
...fleet of Matt Ridgway's B-29 bombers, escorted by Navy jets from off-shore carriers, bored into extreme northeastern Korea one day last week and dropped 300 tons on the important communications town of Rashin, which lies on the rail line from Manchuria's Harbin down Korea's east coast. The bombers smashed warehouses, a locomotive repair shop, a marshaling yard. There was no flak and no enemy interception. It would have been a routine raid if it were not for Rashin's peculiar history...