Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The next day, Burlington produced an even bigger surprise; it announced that it wanted to buy control of Goodall-Sanford, Inc. (Palm Beach suits, plastic-coated fabrics, etc.) in the open market. This came as a shock to J. P. Stevens & Co. (the family firm of Army Secretary Robert Stevens...
To finance both deals, Burlington had some $50 million in cash and Government bonds in its till. By the two purchases, Burlington's sales (including those of the controlled companies) will be well above $400 million a year, thus putting it ahead of J. P. Stevens and making it...
Then the plot enlarged. The instigators had become Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., his chief deputy, William P. Rogers, and Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President. Further along ... it was the Democrats who 'shoved' Secretary Stevens into the battle ... So Senator McCarthy had backed away completely from his...
5. Refusal to grant Secretary Stevens access to its files. 2. Stevens countered by publicly: 1. Casting aspersions on McCarthy's war record.
1. The spark which finally touched off the Army-McCarthy explosion was the Subcommittee's: 1. Investigation of Secretary Stevens' personal staff.