Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...growing family of critically short defense materials, Senator Lyndon Johnson's investigating committee last week added an outsize, howling new infant: wool. The committee found "no wool in stockpile" and "no wool in inventory," because of "abysmal lack of foresight. If general mobilization were undertaken now," said the committee, "we would again be as bad off-or perhaps even worse-than we were during both World Wars." The Munitions Board, which is responsible for stockpiling critical materials, "has clearly and miserably failed." The board had even neglected to take title to 460 million pounds of surplus wool held...
Accordingly, three men have taken over for Chollet and among them have succeeded in taking up the slack. Lyndon Hull has been starting at offensive left-half and will probably open today's game. He is being pressed for the starting assignment, however, by Sophomore Bob Engel who scored three times against Lafayette. Reginald Marchant, a junior, has been operating as the Ithacans' safety...
...week that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught the strong scent of "business as usual" in some corners of the Defense Department's planning...
Trained Freshman. The work that 42-year-old Lyndon Johnson had cut out for himself was just the kind that had lifted Missouri's Senator Harry S. Truman out of obscurity in World War II. Freshman Johnson was not unprepared for the job. During the war he had run an efficient House investigating committee which worked much like the celebrated Truman Committee without drawing its headlines. Johnson believed that a congressional watchdog should be something of a seeing-eye guide for blind bureaucracy: his committee marshaled its facts in private, presented them to the appropriate Government officials, and usually...
...Lyndon Johnson began learning his way around Washington in 1932, as secretary to Rancher-Congressman Dick Kleberg. Five years later he was back in Texas, campaigning for a seat of his own. Franklin Roosevelt chanced to be fishing from a destroyer off the Texas coast at the time, read and liked Johnson's hard-hitting New Dealing speeches. F.D.R. saw to it that the freshman Congressman got a seat on the important House Naval Affairs Committee...