Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement. "For 25 years in the course of her public life," said he, "my wife has taken not only the criticisms provoked by her own views and actions but also many punches which were really intended for me or for the publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor in the "Bolivian incident." Christian Herter, then Acting Secretary of State, refused the offer. "Almost unanimously the press of Brazil asserted that even...
...newspapers generally agreed that in view of Morse's attacks, Clare Boothe Luce had done the best thing for her country. "In offering her resignation," said the New York Times, "Mrs. Luce has shown a greater degree of good judgment and personal responsibility than was displayed by her chief antagonist in this controversy. The tactics pursued by Senator Morse of Oregon in this whole affair seem to us to have been beneath contempt...
...occasion of Berlin to spell out for the Senate Armed Services Committee his modern version of an old Army land doctrine. "To protect people on this earth you need to hold the land with forces on the ground." said General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer. the Army's Vice Chief of Staff last fortnight. "The addition of nuclear or thermonuclear types of weapons does not in any way replace the requirements for good manpower." The Senators listened with close attention, later confirmed President Eisenhower's appointment of General Lemnitzer to the Army Chief of Staff's job, to succeed...
...made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore a ligament sliding into base. He graduated 86th out of 271 in the class of 1920. Among his classmates: longtime Army Coach Earl Blaik; Thomas D. White, now Air Force Chief of Staff; Lieut. General Francis W. Farrell, now Seventh Army Commander in Germany; and General Henry Hodes. U.S. Army Commander in Chief in Europe 1956-59-Second Lieut. Lemnitzer married Honesdale's dark-eyed Katherine Tryon just before he was assigned to the first of his two tours...
...coordination with Allies were to become standard operating procedure in World War II, but when the Allies landed on North Africa ("Operation Torch") in November 1942, the idea was a formidable novelty to planners. Lemnitzer drew up the plans for Torch. As Supreme Commander Eisenhower's Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), he showed such a gift for working out the tactical obstacles and logistic snarls of joint operations that he became a sort of permanent, rotating staff officer, got little chance to command his own unit...