Word: artemus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward." Editor Gray died at 48, torturously, of having an eye put out by his son's cap pistol...
...President nominated World War I Hero Artemus L. Gates as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, filling a long-open hole...
...nucleus of the Yale Unit were Frederick Trubee Davison, who had driven an ambulance in France in the summer of 1915 and had seen the Lafayette Escadrille in action; his brother, young Henry P. Jr.; Robert Abercrombie Lovett; John Martin Vorys;* Artemus L. Gates...
...years later, at Dunkirk in 1918, Lieut. Artemus Gates was station commander of the U.S. naval air station, worked with Lieut. Bob Lovett. In Flanders the baby of the outfit, David Sinton Ingalls, Yale '20, became the Navy's No. 1 Ace, in six blazing weeks won the British Distinguished Flying Cross, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal. To death in battle with eight German fighters flew another Yale Unit man, Kenneth MacLeish (since memorialized in verse by his elder brother, Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, and immortalized when the Navy's Destroyer No. 220 was named...
Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...