Word: peress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major General Ralph W. Zwicker, 57, one of those people fated to remain famous for a peripheral incident in life (he successfully defied Joe McCarthy's badgering question: "Who promoted Peress?"), will soon retire after 33 years in the uniform McCarthy said (quite wrongly, of course) that he was "unfit to wear." Since the McCarthy demagoguery, Zwicker won a second star, served as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in the Far East, is now commander of the Ohio-based XX Army Corps...