Word: mcclure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAVID MCCLURE...
Leading the Blind. Witnesses told the committee of cases throughout the U.S., mostly involving the old, the infirm, the widowed, or those who had simply reached the end of the line. Another soft touch is the blind: they cannot read the contracts. Said Donald McClure, California's assistant real-estate commissioner: "This is one of the most vicious rackets we've ever had to deal with...
...Eisenhower brothers, in dark blue overcoats and Homburgs, go up the walk, step inside and give their coats to a maid. Brother Earl, who had planned to meet them at the airport, had arrived ten minutes earlier. After chatting quietly for 25 minutes, the family drove to the Stein & McClure funeral chapel. There, in a curtained-off alcove out of sight of 200 mourners, they heard the Rev. Donald O'Connor of the Kansas City-founded Unity Society of Practical Christianity eulogize Arthur Eisenhower as "mild-mannered, even-tempered, humble . . . one of the top experts in the country...
Died. Major General Robert Alexis McClure, 59, U.S. Army (ret.), who organized SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Branch in 1944, shelled and bombed Germans with 3.5 billion pamphlets, broadcast front-line surrender appeals from loudspeaker-equipped tanks; of a coronary thrombosis: in Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
...divisions, with a third in the process of formation. Iran's 150,000-man army, for years a tatterdemalion outfit rotted by Communist infiltration and paralyzed by low morale, has been spruced up under the guidance of a U.S. military assistance group headed by Major General Robert McClure. currently consists of twelve passable divisions, three of them armored...