Word: chieftain
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Army brass admitted, however, that Congress had met almost every Army demand for funds for ammunition. Neither Collins nor Joint Chieftain Omar Bradley had ever told Congress about the shortage and asked for enough money to end it. The fact is that the money needed for ammunition was hardly more than peanuts compared to the total defense budget. The shortage was caused not by lack of money but by poor planning...
...traveled on a 720-ton ex-Italian minelayer, now the Yugoslav training ship Galeb (Seagull). The royal welcome began in the Sicilian Channel, where the British destroyers Chieftain and Chevron steamed up to convoy the dictator. At Gibraltar three more British destroyers and three aircraft carriers joined up, cannon booming, and 60 planes roared past in a "flyover" (three crashed, killing four officers...
...Secretaries came to the executive wing by a new route: their cars were brought in through a side gate to the back door, off limits to reporters and photographers. One morning congressional leaders turned up at 8 a.m. for orange juice and coffee, and a briefing by Joint Chieftain Omar Bradley and CIAdministrator Allen Dulles on the military-diplomatic situation the world over. The situation, they agreed afterward, was "grim...
...Blood. Historian Prawdin starts his story with Temuchin, son of a minor tribal chieftain, who bound the wandering nomads of Mongolia into a military state. As Genghis Khan, chieftain of chieftains, he eventually controlled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Himalayas...
Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled...