Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing unobtrusively in the background at the signing ceremony was the man who next day became the first permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Nelson Bradley. Never before had the nation given one military man a post of such responsibility and influence...
From Bercenay, France, Jean Baudin, who says that he has read every issue of TIME cover to cover for the last three years, sent in the following confession: "I have never been a Communist, but must confess that I was certainly far redder years ago than I am now. TIME'S influence, I think, or rather its undistorted articles one reads every week and remembers easily, brought forth this change...
Doughboys' General. After the war, the cumbersome, clique-ridden Veterans Administration was handed to him; he made sense out of its sprawling bureaucracy, returned to active military service and succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as Chief of Staff. Over the years Omar Bradley, the man who never raised his voice, never mixed in service feuds, had won the solid admiration of everybody from plain soldiers (who called him the doughboys' general) to Government bureaucrats, to his fellow generals. The Third Army's brilliant, fractious George Patton, one of his subordinates, once told him: "Between my screwy ideas and your...
They were dangerous men to tangle with. There was no Senator who did not have federal projects in mind-rivers, harbors, post offices, federal buildings-which needed the approval of vitriolic old Kenneth McKellar, a man who never forgives and never forgets. There was hardly a Senator who was not also thinking about some patronage jobs-a federal judgeship, a spot as U.S. attorney-or some legal claim in his own state. All such matters have to be approved by Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee. And McCarran was also McKellar's right bower on the Appropriations Committee...
...very like an international parliament. In the corridor outside the assembly hall, in plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked in French whether this man Layton really deserved their vote, and a British Tory replied suavely: "Ah, mais oui, c'est un brave-he's a good...