Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Global Pair. Occasionally the compact list of morning callers includes the spare, incisive man who, beyond all others in the Army except Douglas MacArthur, has caught the public eye: Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply. Among the men around the Chief of Staff, General Somervell bears a distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, head of SOS, thinks business and the housekeeping part (supply, service, transport) of the Army are much the same. "After all," said a major last week, "there is no reason for misunderstanding on either side. This move certainly ought to make for a smoother pushing...
...moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army and Presidential go-sign, General Handy's Division prepares the appropriate orders for Chief of Staff Marshall to send to the commanding general in the field. His Division makes sure that Brehon Somervell's Services of Supply is all set to do its part and that no other Army action interferes with the plan. Men around the War Department think General Handy is the man for the job. He has sandwiched much careful study between many field assignments. Artillery...
...Senate confirmed rank of lieutenant general for Armored Forces' Chief Jacob L. Devers, making his rank equal to that of Air Forces' H. H. Arnold, Ground Forces' Lesley J. McNair, Services of Supply's Brehon B. Somervell. On the same day, Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce of the Tank Destroyer Command, Camp Hood, Texas (TIME, July 13) became a major general...
...peaceably around one table Wilson assembled with himself Maritime Commission's tough, sea-legged Rear Admiral Howard Leroy Vickery, Army's driving SOS chief. Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Navy Procurement's amiable Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson, Army Air Corps Material's young Major General Oliver P. Echols. The gathering was heartening to look at. The results remained to be seen...