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...grand strategy. It was a short course which wound up proposing a $5 billion cut in the U.S. Air Force (TIME, May 18). Day in & day out McNeil opposed the program to build the Air Force up to 143 wings by 1956, and advanced the late Admiral Forrest Sherman's arguments that the U.S. should divide defense appropriations among the three services without establishing a specified date when any one of them should complete its buildup...
...party machinery going for future elections. The three-way problem (which the Republicans have not faced since Harding succeeded Wilson) has slowed down the Eisenhower Administration until GOPoliticos are grumbling impatiently. Last week Dwight Eisenhower moved to solve it by shifting control of patronage from White House Aide Sherman Adams to Ike's new, hand-picked National Committee chairman, New Yorker Leonard Hall...
...patronage boss, Hall's No. 1 chore will be to streamline the processing of Republican job seekers. Basically, this means careful clearance with Congressmen and state political bosses before making appointments. Sherman Adams, crusty, hard-working ex-governor of New Hampshire, at first often overlooked this clearance. Then, when the squawks began, he grew so cautious that his office became a bottleneck. Another sore point among state and local partymen: the tendency of eager new Republican bureau heads to hurry the hiring of subordinates, thus bypassing patronage channels...
...1860s was in some ways tougher than being an infantryman. The foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...
...general was as good as his word. In 1863 Thomas W. Knox, correspondent of the New York Herald, wrote a story blaming the failure of an attempt to outflank the Confederate defenders of Vicksburg on Sherman's faulty disposition of troops. The general's orders were so confused, wrote Knox, that "discussion . . . with respect to his sanity was revived with great earnestness." This was too much for Sherman. He arrested Correspondent Knox on charges of spying, did his irascible best to have him hanged. A court-martial saved Knox from the gallows, but he was banned from Sherman...