Word: armyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would, old Armyman Stimson could not hide his real convictions. Though he found Navy Secretary Frank Knox "a man of robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
...chief of staff of the Department (an Armyman, a Navyman and an Airman, in turn); a commander for each service...
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