Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transfer, Please. In Glasgow, Scotland, John 'Symington quit his job as a streetcar conductor to join the units being formed for service in Korea because "I don't think the North Koreans can be any more offensive than some of the Glasgow public...
...been the only reason for the President's head chopping, especially since some of RFC's biggest blunders (e.g., Lustron) had been made under White House pressure. Another probable cause was the fact that both Gunderson and Hise had opposed Truman's plan to transfer RFC to the Commerce Department. Furthermore, Gunderson had bucked Truman's plans to aid small business with federal loans; Gunderson thought that a cut in taxes would help far more...
...years ago, William R. Moore, Associated Press deskman in New York, asked for a transfer to Korea, where he had served with U.S. occupation forces in 1946. On Moore's personnel card in New York, someone noted: "Gone to Korea. Be back in three years possibly...
...volunteers," he said. "None of you have to go on this mission if you don't want to. Shortly before midnight we will transfer to the Mansfield. About a thousand yards offshore we will leave the Mansfield in a small boat. Our job will be to mine a railroad tunnel near the beach...
...House Cleaning . . . Two months ago, Harry Truman asked Congress to transfer RFC to the Commerce Department, thus giving it family status. Last week the Senate voted an emphatic "no." Principal reason: a Senate investigating committee had been digging into RFC's past, was beginning to wonder whether RFC's lending machinery shouldn't be shut off altogether. What RFC needed, said Illinois' Paul Douglas (who had stoutly championed all the other presidential reorganization plans) was "not so much a transfer as a thorough house cleaning...