Word: denfeld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others who were dropped: Ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, ex-Chief of Naval Operations Louis Denfeld...
...Chester Nimitz, mediator of the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, also took on the job of U.N. public-relations consultant, i.e., official spreader of good will. In Omaha, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews was named president of radio station WOW, Inc. In Boston, onetime Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts...
Down the streets of Boston, a rifle on his shoulder, marched a brand-new private of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 59, former Chief of Naval Operations...
...Force's case was easily argued. But why, in the age of H-bombs and long-range bombers, did the U.S. need_a bigger Navy? Sherman's predecessor, amiable, ineffectual Louis Denfeld, had never been quite able to explain. Once when a J.C.S. member asked him about the Navy and its plans for antisubmarine warfare, Denfeld sighed: "Oh, you wouldn't understand...
...Sherman the job of working out the unification agreement. Sherman dutifully sat down with his friend Lieut. General Lauris Norstad of the Army Air Force and negotiated agreement. To the anti-unification Navymen, led by Vice Admiral Arthur Radford, this was just short of treason to their service. When Denfeld brought Radford to Washington as his vice chief, Sherman went off to take command of the Mediterranean Fleet...