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Big Cheers. As the Legion's advance guard arrived this week, Legionnaires seemed a little puzzled by all the todo. They talked mostly about business. They had 800 resolutions to consider, ranging from veterans' housing to immigration. In Madison Square Garden and the 71st Infantry Regiment Armory, they...
Democratic politicos began to look at themselves in a new perspective. Until a few1 weeks ago, Navy Secretary James Forrestal had turned a deaf ear to proposals that he should be Harry Truman's running mate in 1948. Despite his obvious qualifications (residence in New York, businessman's...
Last week Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug summoned 50 bigwigs to Washington. He called on Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the Army Air Forces' Lieut. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, to tell them of the fix the services...
A Matter of an Hour. Martha Truman might not live through the day. His plane was made ready to take off. There was one delay. He wanted to sign the Army-Navy-Air Forces unification bill so that, before Congress recessed, he could nominate Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal to...
Harry Truman was tight-lipped as he waited beside the Sacred Cow. Finally the bill was brought to him. A few minutes later his plane was aloft. The White House announced Forrestal's nomination, which the Senate quickly approved.