Word: denfeld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral DeWitt C. ("Duke") Ramsey, 57, longtime naval aviator who is Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Under him are six deputy chiefs, all vice admirals: Forrest P. ("Fuzz") Sherman, 49 (operations); Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, 53 (administration); W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, 55 (special weapons); Louis E. Denfeld, 54 (personnel); Arthur W. Radford, 49 (air); William S. Farber, 60 (logistics), the only holdover...
...partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., now a naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
...bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 54, who will be taken from command of a battleship division and given an unannounced post ashore-probably Chief of the Bureau of Personnel, one of the most worrisome posts in Washington...