Word: macarthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four horsemen of World War II met in Manhattan at the first annual dinner of the Football Hall of Fame. Stepping out of one campaign into memories of others, Old Halfback Ike Eisenhower posed beforehand with Generals Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley and Lucius Clay. The President enjoyed himself hugely, beamingly referred to MacArthur as "my chief," received a gold medal for "a lifetime of devotion to American intercollegiate football," rocked so with laughter at the khaki, G.I. jokes of Hoosier Comedian Herb Shriner that a newsman muttered: "I didn't think the Republicans were so alarmed over the Indiana...
...handbill, entitled "A Statement By Citizens Of The Tenth Congressional District," attacked Saltonstall for his membership in the ADA, approval of General MacArthur's dismissal and opposition to the Smith...
...involved than a Red retreat. Peking was eager to exploit a wedge it thought it detected between Washington and Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told the Nationalists, "the day will come...
...rural Japan is no longer the place the elders knew. First break in the age-old pattern of peasant poverty came with the land-reform law imposed on Japan by General Douglas MacArthur...
...that way with Billy Mitchell, Lindbergh and MacArthur...