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...give Government executives a freer hand in hiring and firing top assistants, and these essentially political employees did not possess the job security enjoyed by regular civil servants. In 1947, Harry Truman signed an order giving most of them the equivalent of civil-service protection. In April, Eisenhower partially undid Truman's work by ordering that top bureaucratic policymakers (about 800) be stripped of their job security. Last month, in a further return to the status quo ante Truman, Ike decreed that all nonveterans who held full-time Schedule A jobs (nearly 54,000) should thenceforth be subject...
Even the slip that undid him had a familiar ring: the examiners found a notation of cash supposedly on hand: $719,000. They counted the money and found only $119,000. But they could not discover why Schlekat had stolen $600,000. There was no woman in the case, no racetrack gambling, no wild parties. Then the bank's former president, Charles C. Alter, described his own retirement to the examiners. A New Kensington real-estate man (now dead) had approached him four years ago on behalf of two "Ohio businessmen," H. A. McDevitt and J. H. McKeown...
MacArthur added that, in his opinion, "the greatest political mistake we made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow in power in China. I think, at one stroke, we undid everything, starting from John Hay, through Taft, Leonard Wood, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Stimson, and all those great architects of our Pacific policy. I believe it was fundamental, and I believe we will pay for it, for a century...
...took the parcel and carried it into the living room. It was addressed to Roy, but he opened it. It contained a volume of Shakespeare. Rex probably never saw it, for it exploded as he undid it, tearing open his stomach and maiming his hands. As Rex lay dying in the hospital later, he asked: "Am I dying like a Farran?" His last words were: "No revenge...
...worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...