Word: three
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...
Army & Navy also had to practice a little self-denial on orders of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, pressing his own campaign to trim expenses $800 million. Johnson ordered the mothballing of 77 Navy ships, including two medium-and three small-sized aircraft carriers, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, nine submarines. Navy manpower would be cut 55,000 to 461,000. The Army announced that all 24,000 of the current draftees would be released after completing a year's service, and no more would be called in the "foreseeable future." The Army had to squeeze within a budget...
...three services accepted the amputations in a tight-lipped military silence...
...This patient's present complaint is diarrhea, nausea, nervous instability and mental depression. He does not suffer from indigestion at the present time . . . has two or three highballs before dinner . . . smokes three or four cigars daily...
First he took on Czechoslovakia for charging three U.S. embassy staff members with espionage, and jailing one of them. These incidents and charges, said Acheson sternly, were "obviously trumped up in order to intimidate further the local population . . . This government has sufficient knowledge of the police methods and practices employed by the present regime in Czechoslovakia to know how much credence should be placed in 'confessions' and 'irrefutable proof produced in cases of this kind...