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...Watch Somervell" has been sound ad vice in the Army since 1918; it was being said all over again last week. Lanky, Arkansas-born Brigadier General Brehon Burke Somervell, grey and 49, had been made head of the supply section (G4) of the U.S. Army's General Staff...
...last spring when 30% of his construction job was taken away from him. The 30% was construction of Air Corps facilities and Atlantic bases. He could see more of the fateful hand writing when his construction division was placed under a crack Engineer: slim, 49-year-old Brigadier General Brehon Somervell...
...Department last December confessed to some sad bungles in Army construction (TIME, Dec. 23). A further confession was added last week, but also a showing that Army performance had improved since the Corps of Engineers' able Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell moved in on the Quartermaster Corps...
...these revelations, the Quartermaster Corps's Brigadier General Charles D. Hartman was relieved from duty. He was no scapegoat, said the War Department, but a man who was sick from overwork. Assigned to plug the holes in Army construction was the Corps of Engineers' Lieut. Colonel Brehon B. Somervell, who had done a standout job as New York City's WPA Administrator. Air Corps construction was snatched bodily away from the dusty, tape-bound Quartermaster Corps and handed over to the Engineers...
...stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated in a potbellied WPA stove...