Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat rebuttal of Johnson's own statement a fortnight ago, Sullivan accused Johnson of ramming through the carrier decision without a word to the Navy Department. Yet, said Sullivan, the carrier had twice been approved by the President, and specifically authorized by Congress. Furthermore it had been so important to the Navy that other construction funds had twice been reduced to make the carrier possible. As Sullivan saw it, the whole deal was a barefaced double-cross...
...cancellation came up, he wrote, "I started to give my opinion, but before I had talked more than a minute you advised me that you had another appointment and would discuss this matter with me at a later date." He next heard of the matter five days later, Sullivan said, when he was told by a long-distance telephone call that Johnson had washed out the whole carrier project...
...Said Sullivan: "Your action ... so far as I know, represents the first attempt ever made in this country to prevent the development of a powerful weapon. The conviction that this will result in a renewed effort to abolish the Marine Corps, and to transfer all naval and Marine aviation elsewhere, adds to my anxiety...
Abject Surrender. By this time Louis Johnson had also thrust his bald skull into another angry beehive. At a friendly little luncheon for a handful of Washington newsmen, he incautiously confirmed some of John Sullivan's worst fears. The newsmen came away with the distinct impression that Johnson was intending to absorb all of Marine Corps aviation into the Air Force or the Navy or both, and that a directive to that effect was already in the works...
...enough Senators vote according to their convictions, the Sullivan Bill to eliminate the teaching of "atheistic communism" in Massachusetts educational institutions will be killed when it comes up for a vote in the State Senate this afternoon, sources close to the legislative machinery said last night...