Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist guerrillas had cut the rail road from the great Kailan coal mines to the port of Chinwangtao. For nine days none of the Kailan coal, which China desperately needs, had moved. U.S. Major General Dewitt Peck, commander of the ist Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major...
...famed ist Division which invaded Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu and suffered its worst casualties at bloody Okinawa. Few if any veterans of those grisly days were still on hand, but the new men were the same kind of businesslike marines. Under Rockey and grey-haired, peppery Major General Dewitt Peck, who commanded the famous 4th Marines at Shanghai before the war, they cleaned up and settled down...
...Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
Next day, George DeWitt was no longer the Times-Herald's managing editor. Washington heard that he had told Cissie Patterson, "either that layout goes, or I go." The layout stayed...
...subsidized" and "myth of reprint" were horrid words to his ears, the Digest's tall, balding DeWitt Wallace (with his wife, co-editor and co-owner) gave no sign of it. Said he: "The unusual growth of the Digest in the past ten years has been due in no small degree to the opposition, from time to time, of various magazines. It has had a highly salutary effect in keeping us on our toes editorially. We believe that the product will continue to speak for itself...