Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General John C. H. Lee had had enough. Last week, just a month after Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert Ruark called him a martinet who made life miserable for G.I.s in his Mediterranean Theater command (TIME, Aug. 25), frosty-eyed "Courthouse" Lee announced his retirement from the U.S. Army...
This is from 3½ years' continuous observation of him in his overseas organization; first as a G.I. well down the line of his command, and still later as a junior officer...
...Here in Mexico City, occupying 45 chairs in as many different cafes on any given day, are the 45 generals who used to command Ubico's army in Guatemala. They have an odd habit of snorting through their noses as they tell you what they will do to the current Guatemalan Government once they get arms...
...hour inspection of Leghorn, Italy, Columnist Robert C. Ruark had sniffed out some lively scandal, and his five-day series on abuses in Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee's command had touched off a full-scale Army investigation (TIME, Aug. 25). Perhaps some of Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded...
...kind. Flynn is the new-style boss, well-educated, personable, thoroughly equipped to understand the more complex aspects of modern government. His machine is run from an office building, not from a hotel lobby or a clubhouse. It has a filing system, bylaws and rigidly constructed channels of command...