Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syngman Rhee. When it came down to it, Rhee had an imposing show of power. How to counter it was the subject of a conference called by Mark Clark, and attended by Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins, Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor and Far East air and naval commanders. Clark & Co. decided that Rhee could...
Lieut. Harry Brubaker, 29, was a naval aviator, and both a brave and fearful man. He was brave enough to be chosen to go in low and attack the enemy bridges at Toko-ri in Korea; he was honestly fearful of the heavy Communist flak, of the icy sea in which a ditched flyer could last only 20 minutes, and, indeed, of landing a jet on a pitching carrier...
...Strauss got a job as private secretary to Herbert Hoover, who has been his close friend ever since. By the time he was 33, he had become a partner in the New York investment banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In four years of World War II naval service as a procurement and ordnance officer, Strauss rose from lieutenant commander to rear admiral...
Homeward bound for his new post as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters...
...dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble with Assistant Navy Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the papers ran a sloppy, muckraking series that implied widespread homosexuality at the naval base in Newport, F.D.R. blasted the papers. Three years later, when Rathom died, Brown moved up from Washington and became managing editor...