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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Standard Effort | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Captain C. H. J. Keppler, USN (Ret.), chairman of the Civil Defense Advisory Committee at Harvard, has been working since last spring to formulate plans to "prevent or mitigate confusion and panic and to be ready for rescue and relief operations" in the event of air or atomic attack in the Harvard region...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Defense Committee of University Working To Protect Harvard from Possible A-Bomb Attacks | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

Henry G. Moran, USN, director of the Columbia University blood drive, voiced charges of sabotage last week in a drive which had been marked by general student apathy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vandals Interfere With Columbia Blood Drive | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

...someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy's showin the invasion of Sicily, is now ambassador to Belgium. In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wanted: Iron Men | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

College NROTC Unit members will celebrate Navy Day today with an open house at 28 Divinity Place, according to Captain C. T. Bonney, USN, professor of Naval Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NROTC to Celebrate Navy Day Today with Open House, Movie | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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