Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.M.A. delegates heard blunt words from an outspoken Navy surgeon recently returned from Korea. There, said Captain Eugene R. Hering, "Our woeful lack of military surgeons has again been demonstrated . . . Our greatest weakness [is] the lack of medical officers who are psychologically prepared, physically toughened, professionally capable and sufficiently aware of the military aspect of any given campaign...
Besides the outspoken, who had already taken up positions in the debate, there was many a legislator still warily keeping his own counsel, or feeling for a secure hummock on middle ground. Said South Carolina's conservative Democrat Burnet Rhett Maybank: "I think MacArthur would have had us do too much with too little, though his theory is right." Also in the middle was Illinois' independent Democrat, Senator Paul Douglas, who would not bomb Chinese bases in China, but advocated a naval blockade of China as well as U.S. aid to Chinese guerrillas on the mainland and "helping...
Last week outspoken Marriner S. Eccles, member of the Federal Reserve Board, joined those who thought RFC ought to go. "There is no real place in a private-enterprise economy for direct governmental lending to the private economy," Eccles told a Senate committee, "any more than there is a place for direct Government ownership of the means of production." Eccles had once supported Government loans to fill "gaps" in the private credit structure, but in these days, with so much available credit around, he felt they were "socialistic," a threat to the free-enterprise system, and unnecessary...
...Republican off a major committee. Possible choice: Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy off the Appropriations Committee, where he can make trouble on State Department requests for money. Probable Republican choice to succeed Vandenberg on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee: Owen Brewster of Maine, no isolationist but an outspoken enemy of the Administration and of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...stickiest issue of all was an amendment to give draftees the choice of service in a segregated unit. Here Southerner Vinson, an outspoken opponent of the proposal, got impassioned support from Chicago's Democratic William Dawson, one of the two Negroes in the House, whose face bears scars from combat in World War I. "How long, how long, my confreres and gentlemen from the South," Dawson cried, "will you divide us Americans on account of color . . . Deny to me, if you will, all that American citizenship stands for. I will still fight for you. Why will this body...