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...Transfer many of the State Department's functions to the Department of Defense...
...result of these security checks has been the suspension of 143 of the million employees involved. Of those suspended, 23 have been dismissed, 69 transferred to non-secret posts, while 19 have resigned and 9 cases are pending. Despite these small numbers the policy of the investigators was to transfer or dismiss all even doubtful cases...
...Purge My Soul." He told reporters, "I did not . . . realize the insatiable demand for material security which my wife possessed. From the very beginning there developed an unreasoning fear and jealousy of anyone with whom I had contact . . . There began a calculated campaign to transfer to her every material asset that I owned and a constant threat to accuse me of imaginary infidelities . . . This pattern reached its climax in the early part of 1945, when I was repeatedly faced with the demand that I acknowledge these imaginary happenings, and, as she put it, 'purge my soul.' She stated...
Professional Career: After infantry school, appointed as an aide to Brigadier General B. A. Poore, who finally endorsed Lieut. Twining's application for air training, snorting: "If he is crazy enough to want to transfer . . . we ought to help him." After a long siege of desk and staff jobs, named (1943) commanding general of the undersized Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific. On Jan. 26,1943, Twining's B-1 7 with 15 aboard was forced down at sea off the New Hebrides Islands. After six days on a life raft (during which Twining proved his marksmanship...
...made possible by Eisenhower's "new look" military program (see below), based on air-atomic power. In nondefense opera tions with flexible costs, which get only 10% of the budget, most of the reductions were the result of hard-bitten econ omy in operations. Some heralded the transfer of certain responsibilities to local governments, or to private enterprise, e.g., rural electrification was cut in the belief that private utilities can now do the job. For all of these nondefense opera tions where costs are not fixed, the President's proposed expenditure of $6.6 billion represents a phenomenal slice...