Word: seaborne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's criticism of the Fund was very different in origin from right-wing attacks on it that have mounted in fury during recent months. Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. and Columnist David Lawrence accused the Fund of soft-pedaling Communist subversion. American Legion National Commander Seaborn Collins said the Fund "is threatening and may succeed in crippling the national security...
...American Legion last week elected a new national commander: Seaborn P. Collins Jr., 42, a wartime transport pilot who runs a realty business in Las Cruces, N. Mex. He succeeded Arthur J. Connell of Middletown, Conn., who led the Legion's "Back-to-God" movement and who, Legionnaires said, may be the last national commander dating from World War I. The not-so-new veterans of World War II are taking over the Legion. At last week's convention they were determined to fight off criticism that veterans' benefits had gone...