Word: louise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army & Navy also had to practice a little self-denial on orders of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, pressing his own campaign to trim expenses $800 million. Johnson ordered the mothballing of 77 Navy ships, including two medium-and three small-sized aircraft carriers, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, nine submarines...
It wasn't. Everybody knew about "the Veep and the Widow." Introducing Barkley at a Washington dinner last summer, Attorney General McGrath called him "the Squire of Paducah and the New Spirit of St. Louis." In September, asked by newsmen about marriage rumors, Barkley replied: "In any such eventuality...
The Navy brass went on rebelling after unification of the armed services, however imperfect, became fact. In the end, a group of their most ardent officers rashly strove to put the Navy above the dictates of the Government. Last week the inevitable crash occurred. President Harry Truman, acting with brutal...
Anchors Aweigh. The effect of the announcement on Louis Denfeld and other naval officers was both strange and pathetic. Denfeld learned he had been fired only when Vice Admiral John Dale Price (who had gotten the news from a reporter) burst into his office and blurted: "Admiral, the President has...
Last week, as news of his removal spread, officers crowded his office to shake his hand. A delegation of 250 enlisted men trooped in and a chief petty officer, acting as spokesman, said: "If they can do this to a man like you, what is to happen to us? ... We...