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...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...
Global Pair. Occasionally the compact list of morning callers includes the spare, incisive man who, beyond all others in the Army except Douglas MacArthur, has caught the public eye: Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply. Among the men around the Chief of Staff, General Somervell bears a distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, head of SOS, thinks business and the housekeeping part (supply, service, transport) of the Army are much the same. "After all," said a major last week, "there is no reason for misunderstanding on either side. This move certainly ought to make for a smoother pushing...