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...still twirling, Sawyer reversed a two-month-old Commerce loyalty board opinion that Lee was, indeed, disloyal. "Reasonable grounds do not exist for any belief that you are disloyal . . ." wrote Sawyer's personnel officer to Lee. Then, while Lee was drawing up his resignation anyway, Sawyer fired him forthwith "on the grounds of security and the best interests of the U.S."-which is the current imprecise Government way of saying we haven't found you disloyal, but we still don't quite trust...
...final battle in the "police action" in Korea. This week General Douglas MacArthur broadcast his second ultimatum to the North Koreans: "I, as the United Nations Commander in Chief, for the last time call upon you and the forces under your command, in whatever part of Korea situated, forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." MacArthur was ready to hit the Communists above the 38th parallel with another coordinated air-sea-ground offensive...
Robert E. (Roosevelt and Hopkins') Sherwood was offered 850 cases of unpublished papers and letters of Britain's World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George, forthwith reversed his decision never to write another biography...
...prosperous farmers of Illinois' rural Fulton County, it sounded like a gilt-edged business opportunity: Henry Ford was planning to build a huge soybean processing plant at nearby Canton if local people exhibited their faith in the enterprise by buying a factory site. Many a farmer shelled out forthwith, and the investors were soon rewarded for their faith. Ford, they were told, had simply been testing them. To escape inheritance taxes, he had decided to divide his vast fortune among poor and worthy people-if they now wanted to invest further, he would issue certificates which would repay them...
...recruit-simply because it thought that Marines got six pairs apiece. Not until two years ago did the Army learn that the Marines issued only three pairs -and that many an Army recruit threw at least three of his six pairs away. Faced with this blunt fact, the Army forthwith halved its issue. Said the Hoover Commission: "The military services are far too prodigal with Government funds...