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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counsel Seth Whitley Richardson, 65, is a Republican. A mild-mannered man with a lucrative corporation practice in Washington, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Hoover administration. His boss then was William DeWitt Mitchell, whom he now succeeds as committee counsel. Unlike Mitchell, he will be paid for his services (at the rate of $750 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEARL HARBOR: Richardson for Mitchell | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Pearl Harbor Committee's mild, punctilious Counsel William DeWitt Mitchell, who served ably and loyally under Republican Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, could no longer hide his impatience. In quiet anger, he announced that he and his assistants would quit their thankless jobs at year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEARL HARBOR: The Blowoff | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Last week the New Yorker was deep in a lengthy, serial exploration of this creepy process. A composite "profile" of the Digest and tall, lean DeWitt Wallace, its editor and co-owner, had already run to three dart-throwing installments and 14,000 words. How much more was to come was an office secret, but John Bainbridge, the 32-year-old author, said there was only a thin chance that it would break the six-installment record devoted to another Ross anathema, Walter Winchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dig You Later | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...DeWitt Wallace was born Nov. 12, 1889. (Digest editors, who had wondered how old the boss was, were glad to have that settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dig You Later | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Headed for the No. 2 position, Vice Chief of Naval Operations under non-flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Airmen Going Up | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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