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	Senate War Investigating Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senate War Investigating Committee was formed by Ralph Owen Brewster in 1947 to investigate contracts delivered to Hughes Aircraft for the Hughes XF-11 and Spruce Goose.
		The committee accused Howard Hughes of corruption in the methods he used to obtain government contracts for the aircraft.
		However, the Committee never returned any formal report: it was abandoned amidst claims that Brewster was only leading the committee at the request of personal friend Juan Trippe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_War_Investigating_Committee (206 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Institutional Development > Senate Committees
		Committees, except Appropriations and Budget, are not allowed to meet for more than two hours beyond the Senate's daily convening time, and not beyond two o'clock in the afternoon without the express permission of both party floor leaders, or their designees.
		That committee filed its report within a week and, by April 18, the Senate had resolved that twenty rules "be observed." In those days, the Senate spent much of its time acting as a "Committee of the Whole," a parliamentary device for facilitating the legislative process.
		Also in the first session, the entire membership of the Senate was divided into two large committees, with half the senators on the committee to prepare legislation establishing the federal judiciary and the other half on the committee to define the punishment of crimes against the United States.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Committees.htm (3276 words)

	AllRefer.com - Joseph Raymond McCarthy (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His career in the Senate was undistinguished and obscure until Feb., 1950, when he won national attention with a speech at Wheeling, W.Va., in which he charged that the State Dept. had been infiltrated by Communists.
		Although a Senate investigating committee under Millard Tydings exonerated the State Dept. and branded the charges a fraud and a hoax, McCarthy repeated his claims in a series of radio and television appearances.
		However, in December the Senate, acting on a motion of censure against him, voted to "condemn" McCarthy for contempt of a Senate elections subcommittee that had investigated his conduct and financial affairs in 1952, for abuse of certain senators, and for insults to the Senate itself during the censure proceedings.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/McCarthyJR.html (516 words)

	Spruce Goose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1942, the U.S. Department of War was faced with the need to transport war material and personnel to Britain.
		To conserve metal for the war effort, it would be built mostly of wood: hence the Spruce Goose moniker.
		In 1947, Howard Hughes was called to testify before the Senate War Investigating Committee over the usage of government funds for the aircraft, as Congress was eliminating war-era spending to free up Federal funds for domestic projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spruce_Goose (813 words)

	Truman Library - John Abbott Oral History Interview
		The Committee was appointed by the United States Senate, I believe, early in 1941, possibly a little in advance of that.
		The Truman Committee was created, I believe, in '41, and I didn't appear on the scene until '44 and by that time I think Matt Connelly was off in other duties, and I had just surface contact in a couple of cases.
		Committee in those days would have a Christmas party, and we'd go up there and I'd meet, you know, a dozen or two people that I'd never heard of before, and they'd never heard of me, and we'd all have a drink or two.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/abbottj.htm (16732 words)

	Biography: Owen Brewster
		Brewster was chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee.
		Whereupon Brewster investigated Hughes, and, during the period when he was before Brewster's Senate committee, Hughes's telephone wire and that of his attorneys were tapped, apparently under the off-stage direction of Henry Grunewald, who admits that at various times he checked telephone wires for Pan American Airways.
		On the hard testing ground of numberless speaking halls, committee chambers and smoke-filled rooms, he had somehow managed to warm the chill his visage cast, to triumph over his physiognomy through the qualities he brought to the lectern and the conference table.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKbrewsterO.htm (1788 words)

	Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		That investigation has resulted in profferal of charges against six service members, three of which have thus been referred to court martial, and we are still investigating further allegations of criminal misconduct.
		The interim results of the Taguba report were briefed to me in late March as the investigation made its way through command channels en route to approval by the command force land component commander on 6 April and formal adverse administrative action by the JTF commander on 1 May. The investigation is ongoing.
		From December 2002 to present, the Criminal Investigation Command has conducted, or is continuing to conduct, investigations into 35 cases of abuse or death of detainees held in detention facilities in the Central Command theater.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A8575-2004May7.html (4918 words)

	Atom and Oil
		Owen Brewster, chairman of the Senate Committee, had presented the facts unearthed before his committee to the Treasury Dept. on Nov. 21 last.
		They would be unable to exploit their concessions during a war, and very probably they would lose these concessions as the result of a war.
		War would be a death warrant for all the profits these companies hope to extract from the Middle East.
	www.varchive.org /obs/480217.htm (641 words)

	WPI Journal Spring 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lowe first worked with Truman during World War II, when Lowe was executive officer assigned to the Senate War Investigating Committee, chaired by the then senator.
		When the Korean War broke out, Truman asked the 65-year-old general to come out of retirement to be his personal representative.
		He was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II and coordinated all ground combat photography of U.S. troops.
	www.wpi.edu /News/Journal/Spring98/service.html (483 words)

	aroundmaine.com from Time Warner Cable
		It was in the U.S. Senate that he launched a controversial investigation of Howard Hughes, an eccentric, reclusive millionaire.
		The investigation and Sen. Brewster's role in it are highlighted in The Aviator.
		Brewster's antithesis was fellow Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Skowhegan, who spoke out against Sen. Joseph McCarthy in her Declaration of Conscience in 1950.
	www.maine.rr.com /05/portmag/alda (436 words)

	Important People
		During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving as much as 15 billion dollars.When Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Truman realized how much he had been kept in the dark about this and other projects.
		In the early stages of the war, Roosevelt had distinguished himself as a man against the bombing and total destruction of cities (Ambrose, 1997).
		The War Department Interim Committee on Atomic Energy was appointed in early May, 1945.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~mlleonar/people.html (999 words)

	McCarthy, Joseph Raymond on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Washington, D.C. Senator Joseph MCCARTHY is sworn in at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
		Washington, D.C. Senator Joseph MCCARTHY with Roy COHN at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
		Senator Joseph McCARTHY with assistants Roy COHN and G. David SCHINE.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/McC1arthyJ1R1.asp (659 words)

	Biography: Howard Hughes
		In 1946 Owen Brewster, chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee, announced that he was very concerned that the government had given Hughes $40m for the development and production of two aircraft that had never been delivered.
		I was his strongest advocate in the good he wrought, but also his severest critic in his monopolistic endeavors and his attempt to corrupt every public official at every level in local, state and national government.
		Greenspun was an ally of Robert Maheu, the top Hughes aide who connected the CIA and the Mafia in 1960, who came to prominence in the Hughes empire during the Las Vegas period, and who then lost out in the Las Vegas power struggle that violently reconfigured the Hughes empire late in 1970.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKhughesH.htm (3528 words)

	On-This-Day.com - October 24
		Poland was reestablished at the end of World War II in 1944.
		She was the first woman formally nominated for the U.S. Presidency.
		It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
	www.on-this-day.com /onthisday/thedays/alldays/oct24.htm (653 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Harry S. Truman
		Truman (May 8, 1884 — December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth (1945) Vice President and the thirty-third (1945 - 1953) President of the United States, succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt.
		Truman's presidency was very eventful, seeing the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the formation of the United Nations, and most of the Korean War.
		Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922.
	www.usa-presidents.info /truman.htm (750 words)

	BTL:Senate Committee Slams CIA on Pre-Iraq War Intelligence : Houston Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The recently released Senate Intelligence committee report on U.S. pre-war assessments of the threat posed by Iraq, has harshly criticized the CIA for making the false claim that Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction, a conclusion which led to a costly war and occupation.
		The bipartisan Senate panel will be investigating these issues, but won't make public its conclusions until after the November presidential election.
		Several Democrats on the committee have expressed their frustration about the delay in releasing this portion of the investigation, which they say will effectively insulate the White House from criticism for their actions and limit accountability at the ballot box.
	houston.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=31423 (703 words)

	Harry S. Truman
		Mark Twain, stories of the American Civil War, and the lives of great men were his favorites.
		During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars.
		Truman kept the war a limited one, rather than risk a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia.
	www.course-notes.org /biographies/harrystruman.htm (1473 words)

	The American Experience \| Race for the Superbomb \| President Harry Truman (1884-1972)
		During the Second World War he headed the Senate war investigating committee.
		Although publicly Truman always defended his decision to use atomic weapons against Japan, by the end of his presidency he was voicing concerns about the impact the bombs would have on future wars.
		In his last State of the Union address, he said: "For now we have entered the atomic age and war has undergone a technological change which makes it a very different thing from what it used to be.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX79.html (177 words)

	The Education Forum -> Philip Graham
		As a result of the Frank Church investigations (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) in 1975 it was discovered that in the late 1940s CIA began to recruit American journalists on a wide scale.
		This was why J. Earman, inspector general of the CIA, was asked to investigate the truth and the source of the story.
		This was the company owned by Al McCormick, who during the war was a member of OSS and head of “Special Branch, a super-secret part of Intelligence”.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=2935 (3697 words)

	The White House Historical Association > Timelines
		In World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee before being elected vice president to Franklin Roosevelt.
		Soon after the war against Japan had reached its final stage, an urgent plea to them to surrender was rejected.
		DWIGHT D. Bringing to the presidency his prestige as commanding general of the forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /05/subs/05_a17.html (819 words)

	P-38 Lesson Plan: Allied Personel of World War II
		The artistic side of his temperament was displayed in his writings and oratorical style, as well as in his paintings.
		At the outbreak of the Second World War, the British people were in a state of confusion.
		When the war ended, Stalin demanded that the millions of Soviet citizens who were living outside of the Soviet borders be sent back to the Soviet Union.
	www.p38lessonplan.com /elemallies.htm (1023 words)

	Harry Truman
		During World War 1 he was in the National Guard as a captain and served in France in command of Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Force, to which he saw numerous action.
		In his role as a senator, he was in favor of the New Deal was an active member of the Interstate Commerce Committee.
		During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, which investigated corruption and saved as much as 15 billion dollars.
	www.gamepuppet.com /presidents/harry-truman.htm (279 words)

	P-51 Mustang
		A veteran of two wars--World War II and the Korean War--North American Aviation's P-51 Mustang was the first U.S. fighter airplane to push its nose over Europe after the fall of France.
		It was the first single-engined plane based in Britain to penetrate Germany, first to reach Berlin, first to go with the heavy bombers over the Ploesti oil fields and first to make a major-scale, all-fighter sweep specifically to hunt down the dwindling Luftwaffe.
		One of the highest honors accorded to the Mustang was its rating in 1944 by the Truman Senate War Investigating Committee as "the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence."
	www.boeing.com /history/bna/p51.htm (218 words)

	The P51 Mustang
		The P51 Mustang was one of the most effective planes of World War Two.
		As World War Two neared its end, many German fighter planes remained on the ground due to lack of spare parts and fuel.
		Such was the success of the Mustang, that the Senate War Investigating Committee set up by Harry Truman in 1944, called it “the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence.”
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /p51_mustang.htm (716 words)

	Senate Hearings: From UNLV Libraries' Howard Hughes Collection
		Hughes preparing to testify before Senate War Investigating Committee, August 6, 1947.
		Prior to his appearance, Hughes launched a vitriolic media campaign against the Committee and in particular against Senator Ralph Brewster through the Hearst newspapers.
		The report is that all anyone ever monitored from these rooms was a phrase in which Hughes described Brewster in terms utterly unrepeatable in public - or in most private groups, for that matter.)"
	library.nevada.edu /hughes/pages/senate.html (171 words)

	US Presidents - Harry S. Truman
		His Presidency: Truman took office when President Roosevelt died just before the end of World War II, and it was Truman who made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
		Seeing the need to stop the spread of Communism, he established the Truman Doctrine to support nations that were "threatened by armed minorities and outside pressure." He proposed the Marshall Plan to help war-torn countries and helped form NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
		We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.
	www.juntosociety.com /uspresidents/hstruman.html (943 words)

	Harry S. Truman biography
		Truman went to France in World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery.
		Truman was active in the Democratic party and was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court in 1922.
		In 1934 he became Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving as much as 15 billion dollars.
	ks.essortment.com /harrystrumanb_osh.htm (355 words)

	Harry S. Truman, HST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Made the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, resulting in the end of World War II.
		Relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command in the Korean War.
		During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia.
	ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/PeopleView.cfm?PID=374 (643 words)

	George John Mitchell
		Generally considered a liberal Democrat, he was a federal district judge (1979–80) when he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Muskie in 1980.
		Mitchell served on the Senate committee investigating the
		Mitchell also headed (2000–2001) a fact-finding committee on the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli violence in 2000; apportioning blame to both sides, it called for an unconditional halt to the violence.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0833443 (394 words)

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