Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four Guard generals asked to see Eisenhower in an aftermath of criticisms expressed by Secretary of Defense Wilson last week...
...Wilson's name was not mentioned at today's White House meeting, Reckord told reporters...
Charles Erwin Wilson, 66, Secretary of Defense, is the Cabinet officer whose quips and forthright answers have earned the most smiles, howls and congressional yowls. Wilson probably will be the first in the Cabinet to retire, possibly this summer or fall. But he will go not because of carps or criticism against him, but because of age and a desire to rest. As a military man, Ike understands Wilson's problem of holding a lid on the highly competitive services, and can see that he is doing it with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision...
Before he could even get his feet under the desk, Sandys flew off to Washington, the first ranking member of the new British government to visit the U.S. His mission: to talk with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson about sharing the cost and the knowledge on guided missiles, which is where Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory...
...Wilson, "in five or ten years we may have 80% to 90% of our students capable of honors work...