Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Republican Policy Chairman Robert Taft agreed. Six Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be...
Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime...
For six months, Federal Judge Harold R. Medina had suffered the taunts, insults and studied defiance of defense lawyers with weary patience, as they popped up like hammers on a honky-tonk piano-to protest, to object to rulings, to object to rulings on objections, to object to rulings on...
But by week's end, the evasive Mr. Thompson had admitted, with Judge Medina himself taking over some of the questioning, that the U.S. Communist Party taught 1) that violent revolution is inevitable in all imperialist countries; 2) that the U.S. is an imperialist country; 3) that the dictatorship...