Word: mccain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unfortunate Speech." Jimmy Thach finished out the war as air operations officer of the loo-ship Fast Carrier Task Force, first under Admiral Marc Mitscher, then under Admiral John S. McCain. Five years later, he commanded the escort carrier Sicily off Korea, and in 1955 he went to the Pentagon as senior naval member of the Defense Department's Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. "Forget the Navy," Arleigh Burke told him then, "and think Defense...
...more carried out its 23-year-old mission as the chief supplier of Navy planes. During World War II it turned out 17,000 planes, including Hellcat and Wildcat fighters, the backbone of the Navy's carrier squadrons. To the Navy, said the late Vice Admiral John C. McCain, the name Grumman was like "sterling" on silver...
Such conferences have become annual affairs at Kansas State; and from President James A. McCain on down, the entire faculty eagerly awaits their outcome. They began six years ago, when a group of veterans confronted McCain's predecessor, Milton Eisenhower, with a list of "gripes." Ike's educator brother (now president of Penn State) was impressed, called in some of the faculty to hear the complaints. Since then, students have elected representatives and the conference has become a full-fledged policy-making body...
This week President McCain will go over the recommendations, and students know that they will get careful attention. In the past the students have been responsible for such changes as turning the biweekly undergraduate newspaper into a daily, placing sidewalks around the campus. In seven years 80% of their recommendations have been adopted...