Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these goings-on there was at least one likely explanation. The Pentagon landscaping sired by Lieut. General Brehon...
...General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Lieut. Generals Henry H. Arnold and Brehon B. Somervell, Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Air Vice Marshal Inglis and Lend-Lease Administrator W. Averell Harriman...
...conference such as history had never seen. The President, with debonair disregard for proverbs about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General Carl Spaatz...
Significantly, the Army also had what it chiefly wanted: the right to decide what materiel it needs and to deal directly with its contractors. Before a Senate Committee last week Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, the Army's aggressive Chief of the Services of Supply, was asked who had umpired the fight. "No one did," he replied. "It was just settled." Then how was it settled? "I don't know exactly," said General Somervell...
...refused to work as long as a single Negro was below ground. It was at that point that Mr. Robinson was called from Boston, arrived in Butte for a Sunday meeting held in the Fox Theater. Solemnly 1,700 miners listened to telegrams from Phil Murray, Paul McNutt, General Brehon Somervell. Solemnly they voted to stick by their guns...