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...average U.S. citizen, air and sea power are the weapons to be used to defeat Japan. Last week an infantryman gave a different opinion. Burly Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., head of the Army's new Alaskan Department, told reporters that he was for land occupation of the Pacific enemy's homeland...
...Cheered speeches by a glittering array of bigwigs, including General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley. They also heard A.F. of L. President William Green, who stoutly defended organized labor's no-strike record...
...Among the New School's sponsors: Universal Oil's Hiram J. Halle, Mrs. Thomas Lament, the First National Bank of the City of New York's Director Leon Fraser, Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark (Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine...
...jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played it straight through to tiny posts in the Aleutians where men almost never get leave...
Died. Thomas Aylette Buckner, 77, retired president and chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co.; in Manhattan. Son of a Missouri schoolmaster, he rose from office boy and salesman of Midwest branches to director at 36, boosted insurance sales from $200,000,000 to nearly half a billion dollars a year...