Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 54, Secretary of the Army, believes that he has one primary mission in the dispute with McCarthy: to safeguard servicemen's morale and the public's confidence in the Army. Last week Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway made a conspicuous entrance to the...
Yaleman Stevens was a second lieutenant (field artillery) in World War I, a colonel (quartermaster corps) in World War II. Two of his sons were in the Navy. Stevens' third son, William, is now an Army corporal in Europe. In his family textile business, J. P. Stevens & Co., Bob...
Though he lacks a politician's taste for Washington infighting, Stevens is the Eisenhower Administration's entry in its biggest infight to date. At last week's hearings, it was clear that gentle Bob Stevens was just as determined to win as tough Joe McCarthy.
John Gibbons Adams, 42, Army Department counselor, was assigned by Stevens to work closely with McCarthy and Cohn during the Fort Monmouth investigation and the Peress case. Last month he drew up the Army's report on the Schine case.
As the hearings went into their second day, Joe McCarthy seemed more assured, less willing to heed the gadfly advice of Aide Roy Cohn, who soon lapsed into a brooding silence. By prearrangement, the Army side and the McCarthy group changed places at the big table, so that neither could...