Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, Senate Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry rose to say that Senator McCarthy would be unable to continue his performance: he had gone off to the naval hospital to have his sinuses treated. How long would he be gone? asked Texas' Tom Connally solicitously. "Just today," said Wherry. Oh, grumbled Connally, "is that...
...Your article on Admiral Sherman [TIME, March 13] was a typically fine TIME journalistic achievement and an excellent coverage of a most deserving subject. However . . . I take exception to your remark that West Point [seems to] produce more "broad-gauge" minds than does the Naval Academy...
Though I have the deepest respect for "Pointers," I feel that a more thorough study of the situation will reveal that the nature of Army missions, as compared to Navy missions, and circumstances in which an army officer frequently finds himself, as compared to naval officers ... are the real explanation of why there are more Eisenhowers, Clays and MacArthurs than there are Shermans...
...gave up his usual early morning walks ; after rising, he went directly to his desk to read mail* and sign bills. Most of the time, his midday jaunt to the naval station's crushed-coral beach was his only outdoor activity...
...squadrons. Last week Louis Johnson conceded that in doing so he had touched a nerve-and also some muscle. He promised the Marines that they would now get 16 squadrons-with three extra planes per squadron. The Navy would save the needed $2,000,000 by closing down its Naval Air Station at Seattle...