Word: unificationism
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Matthews made a last attempt to preserve the appearance of effective unification, fostered so sedulously by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. He insisted that Admiral Radford should not be heard in open session. It might "give aid & comfort to a potential enemy." The committee overruled him.
All day long, the phone rang in the Pentagon office of Navy Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. To each caller, blond, 46-year-old Captain Crommelin replied abruptly: "This telephone is tapped-you know that." The callers were fellow officers proffering him support. For John Crommelin had defiantly voiced what...
Navy Under Secretary, to draft the "anonymous" letter charging the Air Force- baselessly, as Worth had admitted-with corruption in the procurement of the B-36 (TIME, Sept. 5). He had hoped, he said, to set off an investigation that would let the Navy explain its opposition to the whole...
"It's the Law." The whole dustup was hardly calculated to win much sympathy for the rebellious Navy. When the House Armed Services Committee re-opened its investigation of the B-36, Navymen would get their chance to make their case against the Air Force theories of strategic bombing...
In the last social year, the Frankses accepted 260 invitations to all sorts of Washington parties, entertained some 5,000 at their Embassy. In a single typical week last autumn, they had 354 guests at luncheons, dinners and cocktails, attended nine functions outside-ranging the social scale from an Indian...