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...side was stolid, peaceable WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson, who holds the big civilian job of the war. On the other was slim, stern, impatient Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, who runs the Army's biggest show as Chief of the Services of Supply. They fought without personal rancor but with no holds barred, to determine whether Army or civilians should have last say on U.S. war production...
When General Somervell became Chief of S.O.S. last March, he revitalized Army procurement methods overnight. Soon he was bumping his head against WPB: he was dependent on WPB's raw materials and the plants it built or converted. Since WPB moved too slowly for Brehon Somervell's speedy taste, he set out to push...
Arkansas had always had many a precious asset: its lovely Ozark vacation country; duckhunting that lured wealthy sportsmen from all over the Midwest; modern cities; high schools and colleges whose enrollment doubled between 1930 and 1940; native sons like General Brehon Somervell, General Douglas MacArthur; heroes like lawyer-author-soldier Albert Pike. Now Arkansas began to flap its wings and tell the world...
Army procurement regulations were 1,500 pages long, weighed 18 lb. Then Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of SOS, came along. He got Colonel Albert J. Browning, who once resigned from SPAB because he could not stand red tape, to boil the regulations down. New size: 100 pages, one pound...
...President. But if Churchill is for it, it is something which he has evidently been forced to accept. No soldier man has the final yes or no on this momentous decision. But U.S. generals were evidently more eager than British, as evidenced by the activities of Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (TIME, June...