Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perle Mesto, promoted from Washington's reigning hostess to U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, sailed off to work with a shipboard farewell from 80 friends, including Mrs. Harry S. Truman and daughter Margaret, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred M. Vinson and onetime Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde. Amid the orchids, champagne and caviar, someone asked: "How does one address you, Mrs. Mesta-as Your Excellency?" Beamed the new diplomatiste: "Just call me Perle...
...Gross could name the other officials to whom the freezers had been shipped, the committee cut him off-it wanted to be certain before taking more public testimony. But that did not stop newspapers from printing some names: among them those of Mrs. Harry Truman and Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime strategic weapon,,was a product of political finagling and outright crooked practices in high places...
...Chairman Vinson had promised that there would be no whitewash-and no fishing expeditions either. "I didn't catch the question," Vinson remarked blandly when one witness began to wander. "I was smoking a cigar...
...Vinson was all attention as the airmen began to unroll their case. Essentially, it rested on one hard military fact. When the B-36 was adopted, the airmen insisted, and when its production was later stepped up at the expense of other aircraft, it was because it was the only U.S. weapon in existence which could reach the only possible U.S. enemy. "It is pointless to talk in riddles," declared Air Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg with a blunt disregard for the diplomatic niceties. "The only military threat to the security of the United States and the peace...