Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime chief of the Army Service Forces, General Brehon Burke Somervell handled the world's biggest supply problem, and got a bellyful of civilian gibes at Army red tape. Last week Old Soldier Somervell, now president of Koppers Co., told the Baltimore Association of Commerce of another kind of pain: he was fed up with the red tape and regulations which the Government has loaded onto businessmen...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Guest: General Brehon Somervell...
Williams College President James Phinney Baxter will join with President Conant in discussing "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society" at the Friday afternoon session of the convention. Along with the two educators, Alan Greff of the Rockefeller Foundation and industrialists Oliver E. Buckley and General Brehon B. Somervell form the rest of the panel...
...made no limitation on time," said Ike. What were the chances of war with Russia? "Not now, that's certain. She's not ready." What would he do before he assumed his duties as president of Columbia University? Ike laughed. His ideas were like those of General Brehon Somervell, he said: "Find a cottage with a rocking chair on the porch and sit there for six weeks or so. After that I'll begin to rock-slowly." (Actually, Ike is going to write his war memoirs...
...worked at the top. At one time or another he had turned his persuasive efforts on Secretary of War Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began to refer to their telephone chats as "blitz calls...