Word: usn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon session, Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and his staff briefing team explained the mission of NATO and its capacity for preventing aggression...
BOSTON, March 11--Retired Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, USN, 68, the first man to fly over the North and South Poles, died peacefully in his sleep tonight at his Brimmer St. home...
...president of Virginia's College of William and Mary, Vice Admiral Alvin D. Chandler, USN (ret.) has tried to make the easygoing campus a taut ship (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951). Last fortnight he announced that the governing Board of Visitors had ordered him to put tighter regulations into effect next fall. The new rules: no beer on campus, chaperons for every fraternity party, closer administrative control of student publications. Last week the students made public their answer to ship's discipline. In a special poll of the 1,700 undergraduates, more than half of the 1,165 answering...
...treated for non-service-connected ailments. The law is strongly backed by the American Legion, but is damned by the American Medical Association as "an opening wedge for socialized medicine." Despite the A.M.A.'s stand, the VA hospital system's able director, Vice Admiral Joel T. Boone, USN (ret.) feels that America's generosity to its veterans is merely a just obligation. His thesis: "I don't subscribe to the idea that a veteran with nonservice disabilities is not entitled to hospitalization. He certainly is, and I intend to make sure that he gets...
Attacking Stevenson directly, McCarthy cited Rear Admiral Adolphus Staton (USN ret.) concerning a conference the admiral had with Stevenson during World War II at a time when the Democratic candidate "had been assigned the task of enforcing the . . . law which ordered the removal of Communists from the radio aboard our ships." Staton's statement as quoted by McCarthy: "Stevenson said that he could not see that we had anything at all against them and stated that we should not be hard on the Communists...