Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon may be drafting for the Air Force and Marines," warned Col. William G. McNamara, Selective Service Information Officer. McNamara was contacted by the CRIMSON after the Boston American headlines yesterday reading. "Draft Ends Soon." The paper's article based its optimism on a reduction in the size of the Army and its partial replacement by a stronger Air Force...
...active boy a broken arm is bad enough, but when Terry McNamara broke his right arm he was completely disabled. He had been born with no fingers on his left hand-"nothing but little buttons." in the words of Patrick Clarkson, one of Britain's ranking plastic surgeons. But the broken arm proved to be a good thing for Terry in the long run: his mother, who runs a fruit stand in the grubby Elephant & Castle area of South London, took him to Guy's Hospital. There. Surgeon Clarkson saw him and got an idea...
Early in October, Mrs. Maynard resigned, the second president to go in less than six months, claiming she had been pressured out of the job by anonymous phone calls which were ruining her health. When McNamara was elected president last week, he had little to say about the past. "Just tell them that I have no intention of quitting," he said. "I'll sweat out whatever is thrown...
...people will ever make a fool of McNamara. H.U.E.R.A. members say that in spite of his lack of experience, he is one of the shrewdest labor men around. He has never been known to show anger when dealing with the University, yet he usually gets what he wants. He will back anyone's grievance to the limit, providing the employee with the complaint will follow him into the offices of the administration...
Union men think that McNamara will effectively boost the H.U.E.R.A. after the disastrous Mulvihill rule, in which many subsidiary groups, such as the police and the maintenance men, split off and formed separate unions. It is highly possible that they will come back into the H.U.E.R.A. now that McNamara is president. The quiet man hesitates to make predictions about the future, but his optimism is supported by the record vote that backed him. In McNamara, the employees feel they have someone whom they can trust. And he can't be fooled by anyone...