Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final item, Kelly's review of The Red Carnation by Elio Vittorino, also has merit. Kelly explores all possible levels of the novel and writes with authority and insight. Some of his speculations on the principle character's motivations, nevertheless, are difficult to understand...
Soapy went into the Navy as a deck officer and gravitated to staff work. When he was discharged in mid-1946, a lieutenant commander with ten Pacific battle stars and a Legion of Merit, Murphy got him a job as deputy director of OPA in Michigan. By this time Soapy was on the make for governor, and-when the OPA job expired-he gladly seized at Fred Alger's offer of the spot on the liquor commission. At the same time Soapy Williams, the boy wonder of three schools, rounded the corner and came face to face with practical...
...about time that the Navy's "brazen prejudice" be exposed as in the the case of Captain Hyman Rickover [TIME Aug. 4]. Although this case appears a little unusual, it is not the first instance where the Legion of Merit was soon followed by the order of the boot...
...company's. Before World War II, he served (unpaid) on the Munitions Board's Chemical Advisory Committee. At the height of the war, he also directed all the Government's sprawling research on biological warfare (for which he was later awarded the Medal for Merit). Merck still makes frequent trips to Washington as a consultant to Defense Secretary Lovett. His public-duty commitments range from his local zoning board, his local hospital and state chamber of commerce, to the executive council of the American Cancer Society and the board of visitors of the chemistry and biology departments...
...electrical engineer. Six years ago Rickover sparked planning for an atomic submarine. Last June, when Harry Truman laid the keel of the first atomic-powered submarine, Rickover was publicly praised as the man chiefly responsible for its existence. Later, Navy Secretary Dan Kimball pinned the Legion of Merit on Rickover, said he had done "the most important piece of development work ... in the history of the Navy." Two weeks ago a isman Navy selection board met in Washington to choose 30 new rear admirals. Rickover's name was passed over. Selection boards work in secrecy and never give reasons...