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...armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Beaten and routed in the guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World Wars, an ex-National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars...
...making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...
...Battery D began to give him grudging respect. He was fair. He claimed no special privileges and showed no favors. Then one black night, on a bald knoll in the Vosges-as the boys told it-Battery D fired the first salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves...
...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...
...first salvo, he charged that "in the past nine years Behn and his board of directors . . . have received more than $3,700,000 in salaries and fees while the . . . stockholders . . . have received nothing." l.T. & T. had not paid a dividend in 14 years, he pointed out, even though it showed profits in eleven of those years. Last year, when almost everyone else was making money, l.T. & T. lost $10 million. How, demanded Ryan, could the management explain away such a record...