Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generals sometimes confer with Fisher on policy, sometimes get him to insert an announcement that might be missed on camp bulletin boards. Now there is a difference of opinion in the Army about Joe-but not because he shot a German in the back. Some Army chiefs think Joe should go to Officers Candidate School. The War Department's public-relations chief. Major General Alexander Surles, holds that as an officer Joe would cease to represent the average soldier who follows his doings. Probable compromise: the Army and Ham Fisher may make Joe a noncom...
News bulletins poured into the White House; the High Command came again & again to confer. There was no improvising: the rush of events was merely checked off against a timetable which the United Nations had drawn-and could enforce...
This week the maneuvers will develop into a bigtime mock fight when planes and many tanks join the fray. When the dust has cleared, the generals will confer. The hot, dirty, tired, hungry men along the Cumberland hope the generals will decide they are ready...
...theaters of combat. Every day he discusses the progress of the war with his chief and fellow V.M.I, alumnus, General George Catlett Marshall. About three times a week he talks over grand strategy with Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's war effort coordinator. (General Eisenhower used to confer secretly with the President himself.) It is up to General Handy and his Division to make plans for U.S. moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army and Presidential go-sign, General Handy's Division prepares the appropriate orders...
...There is a Christian morality, there is a human morality, that impose duties and confer rights. These duties and these rights derive from the very nature of man. They may be violated. No mortal has power to suppress them...