Word: peurifoy
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...days later Assistant Secretary of State John Peurifoy announced that ten State Department Civil Service employees had been fired for security reasons-"in the interest of the U.S." This week State, War and Navy Departments and the Atomic Energy Commission asked Congress for permanent authority to fire any employee "in the interest of national security." Congress would no doubt grant it. But the Senators still needed convincing. The most they would give George Marshall for his OIC was an extra...