Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army procurement regulations were 1,500 pages long, weighed 18 lb. Then Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of SOS, came along. He got Colonel Albert J. Browning, who once resigned from SPAB because he could not stand red tape, to boil the regulations down. New size: 100 pages, one pound...
...President. But if Churchill is for it, it is something which he has evidently been forced to accept. No soldier man has the final yes or no on this momentous decision. But U.S. generals were evidently more eager than British, as evidenced by the activities of Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (TIME, June...
...proud or ashamed of. The silence may have given the Russian politician some protection from Nazi interference as he flew around in his big, lumbering Soviet plane. But no such protection has been deemed necessary for other important Allied figures (e.g., British Production Tsar Oliver Lyttelton, Harry Hopkins, General Brehon Somervell) after they had safely reached Washington or London...
...promised this miracle turned to Washington this week after a portentous visit to Britain. Arkansas-born Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell of the Corps of Engineers, boss of the Army's new Services of Supply, had made his estimate of the situation, had announced his decision. Now he sat down at his desk and went to work. The second front had become his No. 1 problem...
...Brehon Somervell the New Deal provided new opportunities, as it did for many an engineer. As executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates...