Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today a U. S. major general draws up to $808.33 a month (including allowances; his base pay is $666.67). Four lieutenant generals have the pay of major generals, plus annual, personal allowance of $500. As Chief of Staff and the only full general on active duty, George Catlett Marshall also draws a major general's pay, along with a $2,200 annual allowance. Highest-paid U. S. soldier is the retired, only living General of the Armies, John J. Pershing, who by Act of Congress has $21,500 a year ($13,500 in pay, $8,000 for "quarters, heat...
...Plans. The present Chief of Staff, George Catlett Marshall, has had his job a year. In that year a new war, new ways of making war, new and successive enlargements of the Roosevelt theory of Hemisphere Defense have kept General Marshall shifting paws like a cat on a hot stove. Last February he put the procurement of more material ahead of recruiting more men for the Regular Army. Last June, the unofficial but well-informed Army & Navy Journal reported: "The War Department does not look with favor upon proposals to increase the enlisted strength beyond 375,000 men at this...
...rearmament seemed far away. Beyond the Venetian blinds the rain fell, streaking the stuccoed walls of the War Department's shoddy Munitions Building, glazing the black asphalt of Washington's Constitution Avenue. Seated before old Phil Sheridan's ornately carved desk, spare, grey General George Catlett Marshall, in summer mufti, talked to 25 newsmen at his weekly press conference...
...greatest peacetime Army expansion in U. S. history, the General Staff is as busy as beavers in a springtime flood. To lighten the work of Deputy Chief of Staff William Bryden, Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall fortnight ago appointed a second deputy: scholarly, friendly Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore of the Engineers. Last week General Marshall appointed another Engineer officer to take Dick Moore's place as head of the G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff. Chosen to run the section which oversees most of the household details of Army life, from buying soldiers...
Many wondered how U. S. industrialists, used to a swift way of doing things, would fare when they met Government red tape. The Army's Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, no novice in Government business, has said that "to cut red tape you've got to be deadly accurate, or run into a demoralizing snarl." But fortnight ago big William Knudsen showed surprise when newsmen asked him about red tape's interference with NDAC's work (TIME, Aug. 5). Replied he: "I do not recognize any. People might have thought we had red tape...