Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When General Matthew B. Ridgway, the Army's Chief of Staff, sat down before the Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee one day last week, South Carolina's Democratic Senator Burnet R. Maybank was ready with a question: Was Ridgway "satisfied" with the new defense budget, which increased funds for the Air Force, reduced expenditures for the Army? Paratrooper Ridgway hedged, hesitated and then gave his answer: "When a career military officer receives from proper authority a decision ... he accepts that decision as a sound one, and he does his utmost within his available means to carry it out." Nevertheless...
...real problem seems to like at the economic core of the "New Look." Because nothing but a war can test a fighting force, military men themselves are divided on its prospects. With a note of warning, General Matthew Ridgway commented on the "New Look" before a Senate committee last week. "We are steadily reducing Army forces," he said, "a reduction through which our capabilities will be lowered while our responsibilities for meeting the continued enemy threat have yet to be correspondingly lessened." Contested on technical as well as on policy grounds, the Administration's "New Look" in defense faces unsure...
...many a watchful prelate it has looked as though the worker-priests were more converts than converters. Two of them were arrested in last year's Communist-inspired riots against General Ridgway (TIME, June 23, 1952); others burst into print from time to time with letters to the Communist press criticizing Catholic labor-union policies as not militant enough...
...called "Lightning Joe" for nothing) reacted fast. He learned that the spacious quarters at Fort Myer, which Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg had occupied,* were still vacant, and that Van's successor as Air Chief, General Nate Twining, had no plans to move into them. Collins called Ridgway and suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway had his eye on Bradley's Quarters I and wasn't interested. When word of Collins' plot reached...
...Embassy, but he nursed a dark suspicion that the higher-ranking Radford might grab it first. To forestall an invasion, Carney leaked a strategic news item to a society columnist, who reported that "Admiral Carney says he expects to move into the admiral's house on Observatory Hill." Ridgway told the same columnist he intended to take over the Bradley house. Having lost the ball, Radford moved in temporarily with his old friend, Marine Commandant Lem Shepherd, at his comfortable Marine Barracks quarters...