Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aides from 44 States, nine corps areas were called to Washington to be educated by Secretary of War Stimson. In Army headquarters in the rambling wartime Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue, they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier, General George Catlett Marshall. What they saw was a rangy, lean (182 Ib.) six-footer in negligently neat mufti, a field soldier with reflective blue eyes, a short, pugnacious nose, broad, humorous mouth, a stubborn upper lip. What they heard was a dry, impersonal voice, setting out with simple precision the necessities...
...President and his Chief of Staff, General George Catlett Marshall, also asked Congress to provide the men to use the new Army's equipment. Only way to get enough men is conscription. Testifying for the pending Burke-Wadsworth Universal Training Bill (TIME, July 1), General Marshall and Lieut. Colonel Harry L. Twaddle drew up a conscription schedule: 300,000 to 400,000 draftees to be called Oct. 1, another 300,000 or 400,000 next April (or next January, if necessary). By October 1941, the rate can be stepped up to 600,000 at a time. The Army wanted...
...come from Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 11). Nor did they come from editors or plain citizens, demanding effective Defense at any cost (see p. 12). Nor from the U. S. Senate, unanimously voting $3,297,000,000 for the Army & Navy. Nor from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, saying that the Army with all its new money cannot be ready for a war before December 1941. Nor from Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, confessing at last that the U. S. Navy, even when operating near its home shores, is helpless without enough aircraft to support and protect...
...could see (and was told by Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall) that its Army could muster enough initial combat equipment for about...
...Seventy-eight days after the U. S. entered World War I, "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with 59 officers, 67 enlisted men, 36 field clerks, five civilian interpreters. If the U. S. chose to enter World War II this week, the Army's Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall could immediately begin shipping upwards of 60,000 reasonably well-equipped, ready-to-fight regulars. He could put on the firing line five modernized, motorized infantry divisions, two cavalry divisions (one on wheels, one using both wheels and horses), a serviceable force of combat aviation (which could soon...