Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of final training exercises: an attack, with live ammunition, on a line of dummies "defending" a hill. Rifles banged. Artillery shells moaned overhead and exploded in "enemy" territory. Amid the excitement Edgar had an odd impulse. He aimed his M1 rifle at the back of 2nd Lieut. Richard Davenport, 22, the officer commanding his platoon. Then he pulled the trigger. The officer toppled over dead with a bullet through his heart...
...first, officers assumed that Davenport had been struck by a fragment from some freakish artillery burst. Then an autopsy physician found that he had been killed by a rifle bullet, and officers decided that Lieut. Davenport had been shot by a soldier with a grudge. The lieutenant had never disciplined Edgar or had any trouble with him, and the investigators did not pay him any special attention...
...MAXWELL DAVENPORT TAYLOR, Lieutenant General, U.S.A...
...Davenport. At the time, Coe looked invulnerable. His Washington career had been highly successful. A native of Richmond, a graduate of the University of Chicago, Coe had worked at Johns Hopkins and Toronto Universities and for the Brookings Institute before he came to Washington...
...Treasury Department, he worked closely under Assistant Secretary Harry Dexter White, who died soon after Whittaker Chambers called him a key figure in the Red infiltration of Washington. To many of his subordinates, White seemed a rather frightening and unapproachable boss. Coe, who used to stretch out on the davenport in White's office, became a channel between White and the staff. At the Bretton Woods Conference, Coe did important organizational chores, just as Alger Hiss had done during the founding of the United Nations at San Francisco. In 1946, Coe became secretary of the Bretton Woods offspring...