Word: artemus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming back from the Oriental sea frontier of the U.S., Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, ace in World War I and now Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, said when he stopped off at Pearl Harbor: "We can never go back to prewar status. We have to keep permanent bases in the Marianas. Those islands . . . [should be] another Pearl Harbor . . . another Pearl Harbor 3,500 miles west of this place here...
...Artemus Gates and the Navy know that, as a backstop for the Philippines, the Marianas will be vital to the preservation of a Pax Americana in the Pacific...
George Ade watched the U.S. forget Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, the great humorists of his youth, and knew that one generation's wit is another generation's banality. He saw his own slang ("the cold grey dawn of the morning after"; "I felt like thirty cents") become shopworn clichés. And he came to believe that the only funny thing he ever wrote...
Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production...
...Ingalls, the Navy's No. 1 ace and later U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, now in the Pacific; Kenneth MacLeish, whose death in battle against eight German fighters was memorialized by brother Archibald MacLeish; F. Trubee Davison, now a colonel in the Army Air Forces; Artemus L. Gates, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary...