Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special instructions from the President?" "No special instructions," and Secretary Swanson marched off to pack his bags. Within an hour big black headlines blazoned to the country the news that President Roosevelt was rushing his Secretary of the Navy to the heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana. Not stopping to read a newspaper Secretary Swanson motored to Annapolis, kissed his wife goodby, went speeding down Chesapeake Bay on the Navy's finest and newest heavy cruiser...
Last week practically all of Russia's high air command was wiped out in a single crash near Podolsk 20 mi. south of Moscow. Where they were going, whence they came, what caused the crash, remained a Kremlin secret. But next day in the City Hall in downtown Moscow the bodies lay in state: Peter Baranov, Vice Commissar for Heavy Industries in charge of Aviation; Abram Goltsman, Chief of Civil Aviation; his assistant, A. Petrov; Valentine Zarzar, former Vice Chief of Civil Aviation and now Chief of the Aviation Section of the State Planning Commission; O. Gobonov, director...
Secretary of War Ferrer hastened to Army general staff headquarters at Castillo de la Fuerza. The enlisted men in command there listened to his pleas to "observe discipline," sent him home downcast...
Major General Preston Brown, commander of the Panama Canal, to succeed General Parker in the Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander...
Major General Johnson Hagood, commander of the Omaha area, to command the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio). He is small, young-looking, cerebral, likes golf and bridge. Critical, deep-thinking (he used to teach philosophy at West Point), he startled the War Department last April by announcing before the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army was too complex and top-heavy, that the War Department should be demilitarized and given the status of a civil bureau...