Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander in chief of the Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...
Hughes took the offensive again. He charged that the investigation's motive was to smear Elliott Roosevelt. He put white-haired Noah Dietrich, vice president of the Hughes Tool Co., in the witness chair. Witness Dietrich gave his version of a conversation with Committee Investigator Flanagan in California last March. He said he told Flanagan...
Investigator Flanagan, sitting nearby, reddened and asked for the chair. He said he had said no such things; any talk about Elliott or the Roosevelt family had been wholly Mr. Dietrich...
...Brewster told newsmen that he regretted having brought up the story about the airline hostess. Then he quit the capital and flew off (in an American Airlines plane) to a vacation in Maine. But Howard Hughes was not through. He turned his guns on the Army. He and Noah Dietrich contended that it was "personal dislike" of Hughes by Major General Oliver Echols (wartime chief of Air Forces procurement) which blocked Hughes's efforts to speed building of the 200-ton "Hercules" and the XF-11 camera plane. And it was "Army hatred" of him, for his failures...
Married. Maria Elizabeth Sieber, 22, plumpish actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; and William Riva, 27, Manhattan artist; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...