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...guess more famous people have appeared on the MARCH OF TIME this summer than have appeared on any other program in so short a time in all the history of radio. Among them were fabulous boatbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and world-traveler Wendell Willkie, Army Supply Chief General Brehon B. Somervell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Philippine President Manuel Quezon...
...moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army and Presidential go-sign, General Handy's Division prepares the appropriate orders for Chief of Staff Marshall to send to the commanding general in the field. His Division makes sure that Brehon Somervell's Services of Supply is all set to do its part and that no other Army action interferes with the plan. Men around the War Department think General Handy is the man for the job. He has sandwiched much careful study between many field assignments. Artillery...
...Senate confirmed rank of lieutenant general for Armored Forces' Chief Jacob L. Devers, making his rank equal to that of Air Forces' H. H. Arnold, Ground Forces' Lesley J. McNair, Services of Supply's Brehon B. Somervell. On the same day, Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce of the Tank Destroyer Command, Camp Hood, Texas (TIME, July 13) became a major general...
...peaceably around one table Wilson assembled with himself Maritime Commission's tough, sea-legged Rear Admiral Howard Leroy Vickery, Army's driving SOS chief. Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Navy Procurement's amiable Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson, Army Air Corps Material's young Major General Oliver P. Echols. The gathering was heartening to look at. The results remained to be seen...
Eberstadt is a close friend and great admirer of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, energetic chief of the Army's Services of Supply...