Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
...fiction pieces in the issue, "The Gooks" seemed a better job than Dennis Fodor's dialogue story. The former is a fine study of its three soldier principals, with restrained dialogue and subtle development; the latter is too glib, too flashy in dialogue without the insights and basings necessary for a competent story. This comparison is not intentional nor malicious, but successive reading of the two stories brings out rather sharply that what is good in one is the chief failing of the other...
...farmers live about as well as before the war," said Kenjo Otsuka, a short, grinning ex-soldier of 31, "and former tenants live better than they did. But the price of what we sell has not kept up with the price of what we buy." A koku (about five bushels) of rice, which before the war sold for $8, now sells for $14. The bicycle that every farmer needs has risen from...
Inauspicious Start. As if to show that Markos the soldier would not be missed, loannidies last week launched a heavy attack on the town of Florina. The rebels' force of 4,000 was said to be the biggest they had sent against any town in this war. For a change, the government forces were not caught napping; the guerrillas were beaten off with severe losses. It was not an auspicious start for Uncle John...
...Soldier George Marshall came back to Washington after three weeks of convalescence from a kidney operation, was about ready to get on with his new job: chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. His predecessor: the late John J. Pershing. His new offices: the Pentagon suite which Black Jack never...