Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question. At week's end the President briefed chairmen and ranking members of Senate and House foreign and military affairs committees, got the sternest questioning of the week. Was it not inconsistent, asked Georgia's sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, to go ahead with planned manpower cuts in the Army and Marine Corps, given Communist strength in East Germany? Answered Ike: No. The U.S. has enough nuclear and conventional arms on hand...
...taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move...
...have no choice, and I hope there will be no hesitancy," Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee said recently about extending the draft laws. True to his word, Rep. Vinson hurried the bill through committee after only superficial testimony from Pentagon representatives, had the House pass it, and delivered his package to the Senate, sometimes a more deliberate body...
...House Majority Leader John McCormack insisted on turning over his chairmanship of the exotic new Committee on Space and Astronautics to Louisiana Democrat Overton Brooks. Reason: the move took Brooks, whose abilities are lightly regarded, out of the line of succession to Georgia's aging (75) Carl Vinson as chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. Succeeding Brooks as Vinson's heir apparent: Texas' able Paul Kilday...
...President Robert Paxton, 56, and 13 vice presidents. The heads of the nine service divisions (e.g., accounting, management consultation, marketing) report directly to Cordiner, bear the chief burden of long-range planning and research. To Paxton, himself an old operating man, report such operating-group executives as Arthur F. Vinson. 51, head of G.E.'s important heavy industrial goods section, James H. Goss, 51, head of consumer products, and Cramer V. LaPierre, 54, boss of defense and atomics...