Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaigning for a seat of his own. Franklin Roosevelt chanced to be fishing from a destroyer off the Texas coast at the time, read and liked Johnson's hard-hitting New Dealing speeches. F.D.R. saw to it that the freshman Congressman got a seat on the important House Naval Affairs Committee...
...Truman has also publicly put his foot in his mouth before, but this time the feat seemed to overshadow all others. His description of the Marines as the Navy's police was grossly inaccurate. By congressional act the Marines' primary mission is the seizing and securing of naval bases; by long tradition their mission is to fight anywhere, any time and at a moment's notice. It was obvious to everyone else in the U.S. that, at the moment, marines were fighting and dying in Korea. Harry Truman's comparison of Marine propaganda with the Russian...
...been in the small hours of June 25, was fast-moving Ernest A. Gross, deputy U.S. representative on the Security Council. This time Ernie Gross had no invasion to report, but his news was potentially as serious. A Russian plane had attacked a Corsair fighter of a U.N. naval force in the Yellow Sea, off Korea's west coast. The plane had been shot down, and the body of a Russian aviator recovered...
...Moscow the next day, Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky tried to shift it from a U.N. to a Russo-American affair; he summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and tried to hand him a note alleging that eleven American warplanes had shot down an unarmed Soviet plane near the Russian naval base of Port Arthur...
Last week, with U.S. warships' guns again being fired in anger in another part of the world, the two navies made a special point of reaffirming their friendship. In Washington, U.S. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, welcomed genial Admiral Flavio Figueiredo de Medeiros, 62, chief of staff of Brazil's navy and Sherman's guest for a twelve-day visit to the U.S. After meeting U.S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and attending some white-glove parties, the Brazilian admiral, who commanded the 1st (Rio) naval district during the latter part of World War II, embarked...