Word: denfeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Huie is entirely right about his book; TIME was dead wrong. 2) In a letter to the Reader's Digest, Admiral Denfeld's office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with...
...that the big, high-flying B-36 was a sitting duck. Last week the Joint Chiefs of Staff sensibly ruled that there could be "no useful purpose" in staging a duel in public between the B-36 and jet fighters. The memorandum was unwillingly signed by Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the senior member of the JCS, whose Naval airmen had started all the hullabaloo in the first place...
Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, said "anything to further the team spirit." He thought a nice date would be Sept. 2-the day the Japanese surrendered aboard the battleship Missouri...
Said Leahy: "Okay, Louie, if you think you can't get along without him, then I'm convinced you ought to have him. Go get" him." Denfeld did. When he left the President's study, he had Truman's approval of Radford in his pocket...
...Submariner Denfeld's chief executive, Airman Radford will run the Navy's day-to-day operations while Denfeld fights its battles with Congress, the Budget Bureau and the White House. On second look, even the Navy's "Young Turks" conceded that it would be hard to find a better team...