Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest undercover fight now going on in Washington is over what should be brought out in the Pearl Harbor hearings. Last week the fight boiled over in Congress...
...hottest unconfirmed story about Pearl Harbor is that some time before Dec. 4, 1941, the U.S. intercepted an important coded message from the Japanese...
Trying to get at all Pearl Harbor data, Republican members of the Congressional investigating committee proposed that individual committee members be permitted to get any information they wanted from any Government department. Democrats steamrollered them down. Promptly, Maine's Senator Brewster charged that somebody was trying to suppress information. Committee Chairman Alben Barkley replied that he did not think individual members should be permitted to "cruise" around as "private detectives," and the argument ended on that inconclusive note...
...will now start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved...
...founded (Nov. 10, 1775), the Corps would need noncoms like Smith to keep the outfit going. Smith was 16 when he shipped in the Marine Corps. He was a husky, competent corporal of 22 when he heard his first shot fired in anger. That was at Pearl Harbor. Charles Henry Smith was in the color guard aboard the battleship Maryland when the enemy struck. On the double at the proper command, he manned his antiaircraft...