Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. Aiming to make conservative U.S. farmers less sot in their ways, he bought the dingy, drab, 105-year-old Southern Farmer, which circulates 325,000 copies every month through the home districts of many a conservative Southern congressman. As editor and publisher he promptly installed long, lean, leftish Aubrey Williams, whom the Southern senatorial conservatives helped vote down as Rural Electrification Administrator last spring...
These were the principal shifts fortnight ago, in the biggest command stir-up the Navy has had since the war began. Other changes included handsome Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, 62, who made way for Mitscher and will become superintendent of the Naval Academy, where one of his first big chores will be to bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis...
fleet? Air admirals like Aubrey Fitch, back in Washington from the Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, 40, once her brother-in-law (widower of her late sister, Elizabeth) : their third child, first son; in Manhattan...
...rest. After that, he was due for the shore-based post now held by Aubrey Fitch: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, little more than an administrative post-unless he got the new job which airmen hoped he would...