Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although he was asking for less than the nation had been prepared to expect and many willing hands were anxious to give, the President, speaking in the mood that currently grips Washington, talked as if the U.S. public still had to be persuaded that there was a crisis on. It...
The emissary from the White House slipped quietly into Charles E. Wilson's Manhattan office last week to press an old question. Would Charlie Wilson give up his job as president of General Electric* to take charge of U.S. mobilization in Washington? Wilson, eyeing his visitor through his thick...
It wasn't quite what some of the mobilizers already on the scene had in mind. Coordinator W. Stuart Symington had been quick to abdicate gracefully; it was he who had proposed Wilson in the first place, and he had also urged appointing Wilson on Wilson's terms...
Twice Shy. Charlie Wilson, 64, a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, no-nonsense kind of businessman, had come through a boyhood in Manhattan's slums, started at the bottom of General Electric's ladder as an office boy and made his way to its $275,000...
Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented...