Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in an atmosphere charged with self-generated urgency, the U.S. put the responsibility for all its armed forces on one Cabinet member's shoulders. (And thus, for the first time since 1913, the U.S. had a Cabinet of only nine members.) Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan and Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington were also sworn in (Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall had taken the oath nine weeks ago). Then Symington and Royall announced that they had agreed on more than 200 re-bracketings in plans to separate the Air Porce from...
...Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He was elected national commander-a post which pays $10,000 plus $40,000 in expense money-by acclamation...
Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan...
...Biffle, the Senate Democrats' masterminding policy committee director; New Dealing Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, who has been mentioned for every vacancy from the Supreme Court to the War Department. One old name missing from the list this time was Hannegan's young, exuberant executive assistant, Gael Sullivan, who left his chances in a Rhode Island district court last month when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving (scaled down from drunken driving...
More pessimistic in her outlook on love and life was Miss Maureen Sullivan, a Trinity College grad completing the secretarial course. She woe-fully described her six week Cambridge sojourn as "blood, sweat, and tears...