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Tunner set up headquarters at Ashiya air base in southern Japan, brought with him, as usual, assistants of long standing. Tunner's chief of staff Colonel Glen R. Birchard had been with him in Germany. Both his communications officer, Colonel Manuel Hernandez, and his operations officer, Colonel Robert ("Red") Forman, were holdovers from the days of the Hump. Says Tunner: "When we start a new airlift, we start in a hell of a hurry. It is a whole lot easier to start with people you know...
...management was named. Besides Ripley, as chairman, it includes as president bald, Annapolis-educated Industrial Engineer James Reed, who managed construction of San Francisco's $35,000,000 Golden Gate Bridge, ex-Navy aircraft procurement chief Commander Ralph D. Weyerbacher as vice president and general manager, and H. Birchard Taylor, great grandson of William Cramp, as vice president...
...From Lincoln Lyrics, used by permission of C. C. Birchard & Co., Boston, owners of the copyright...
...British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase, the Founder's nephew. Valedictorian of the Class of 1842 was Rutherford Birchard Hayes...
...average U. S. citizen thinks of him at all, he remembers Rutherford Birchard Hayes as a Benign Beard who was the 19th President of the United States. His memory is more important in Paraguay. A well-meaning gentleman who once thought of enlisting for the Mexican War to improve his bronchial trouble, he served as a Colonel under Sheridan in the Civil War, and was elected President in 1876 over Samuel Tilden in the closest, most bitterly disputed election ever held...