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...persuaded the Rockefeller committee to insert in the Defense Department reorganization plan-involved straightening out lines of authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To date, the Joint Chiefs have operated like a loose federation, capable of interservice horse-trading, but seldom of clear-cut decision. Wilson bought the plea of retiring JCS Chairman Omar Bradley for additional authority for the chairman. This touched off a Navy outcry. The U.S., said the Navy's loyal spokesmen, is headed for the "Prussian system" of a single, supreme chief of staff. The spokesmen argued that the Prussian system is too inflexible...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court for the third time refused to listen to a plea to set aside the Rosenbergs' conviction. The decision left the Rosenbergs only one apparent way to escape death in the electric chair: if they tell U.S. officials what they know about other Communist spies, they might possibly win for themselves a presidential commutation of sentence...
Final settlement modified the strikers' demands, giving them a 2 1/2 cent wage increase with an additional adjustment for skilled workers. The plea for a union shop was turned down...
While Frick was making his plea in Washington, the Associated Press totted up the score on major-league attendance so far this season. The finding: a 24% drop in attendance as compared with the same period in 1952, even after allowance for games rained...
...Committee urged members to brush up on the reports of Congressional investigators and the Legion's own Firing Line--a self-styled guide to subversives. Armed with this information, the veterans found further encouragement in "Now Hear This!," an article appearing in the American Legion Magazine. It was a plea that Legionaires warn their fellows against red tinted lecturers, and if necessary, "picket the meeting. Your fellow citizens . . . might voice displeasure at your 'ways and means' but they do wake...