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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...
...Widow." Introducing Barkley at a Washington dinner last summer, Attorney General McGrath called him "the Squire of Paducah and the New Spirit of St. Louis." In September, asked by newsmen about marriage rumors, Barkley replied: "In any such eventuality, I will be chasing you to tell you." Two days later, he added: "I have no way of knowing whether I'll make the grade." The newsmen gathered in Mrs. Hadley's apartment in St. Louis' West End knew that he had. Said Barkley: "Our courtship has undergone a process of culmination." The wedding would...
...when his wife died after 44 years of marriage and several years of illness. Mrs. Hadley, a trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...
Secretary of State Acheson sat down before his news conference last week, calmly slipped on his spectacles and read the riot act to two foreign nations in terms that might have been fighting words in the old days of hanky-pank diplomacy...
...engagement announced, neighbors began to peer in the windows and crowd into the apartment. The Veep exuberantly kissed a matron or two, shook hands all around. Mrs. Hadley's younger daughter Jane came in shyly, and the Veep looped an arm around her waist happily. But he refused to pose with his arm around his lady. "No histrionics," said Barkley. "This is going to be strictly dignified...