Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come from the British Government. It came from two U.S. soldiers. One of them was the U.S. Army's terse, capable Chief of the Services of Supply, Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who needs a hundred hands for the task in front of him, and seems to have them...
...steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...
...Watch Somervell" has been sound ad vice in the Army since 1918; it was being said all over again last week. Lanky, Arkansas-born Brigadier General Brehon Burke Somervell, grey and 49, had been made head of the supply section (G4) of the U.S. Army's General Staff...
...last spring when 30% of his construction job was taken away from him. The 30% was construction of Air Corps facilities and Atlantic bases. He could see more of the fateful hand writing when his construction division was placed under a crack Engineer: slim, 49-year-old Brigadier General Brehon Somervell...
...Department last December confessed to some sad bungles in Army construction (TIME, Dec. 23). A further confession was added last week, but also a showing that Army performance had improved since the Corps of Engineers' able Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell moved in on the Quartermaster Corps...