Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a retiring general and admiral had landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp...
...record of six christenings was second only to the eight splashed up by California's first lady, Mrs. Earl Warren. Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg and the wife of economy-minded Comptroller General Lindsay Warren all took remunerative whacks. A $1,000 watch was presented to Mrs. Brehon B. Somervell, wife of the wartime Chief of the Army Service Forces, $31 in silverware was the best Millionheiress Doris Duke could...
...report spared no one. Its first bad example was an old favorite: the $135,000,000 Canol oil pipeline project in Canada and Alaska. The report charged that Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell Army Supply Chief, had ordered the pipeline built on the basis of a "wholly inadequate study" and had continued its construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing...
Many crack officers would be gone by year's end. Soon to go was energetic, ambitious, 53-year-old Brehon B. Somervell, who as chief of the Army Service Forces ran history's greatest supply job. Already back in civilian life was Lieut. General William Knudsen, the War Department's tireless coordinator and trouble shooter on war industry's production line...
...many talented Army juniors to whom the war brought quick promotion, immense labor, and little glory. As a brigadier general and director of material in the new Army Service Forces (originally the Service of Supply), he did much of the work and planning for which his superior, General Brehon B. Somervell, usually got the credit. In his driving efforts to get munitions produced and delivered to the fronts, Clay knew one rule: the Army comes first, civilians second. He made enemies, but he also made a tremendous reputation within the Army...