Word: disciplinarianism
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...fine athlete, he distinguished himself in boxing, fencing and track. A good scholar, he wrote books on military affairs (one of which praised Germany). After the manner of all military biographers, his associates say that he was a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian who was liked by his subordinates. Always in his mind and on his lips was the conviction that the Army was the purest, finest, most Argentine thing in Argentina. While in charge of troops in Mendoza in 1941, he started a "crusade for spiritual renovation"-which worked out as a scheme to staff the Argentine Government with...
...went to Cuba with the Negro loth Cavalry. Lieut. Pershing was 38. He was almost 40 when he was sent to the Philippines and won his captaincy. He was a tough man and a hard disciplinarian, though he had a sentimental affection for his calling. He wrote to his classmates: "Drink deep thoughts of love and affection for us all!" In 1905 he married the daughter of the Hon. Francis E. Warren, Senator from Wyoming...
...made a fetish of writing things down in his clear, clipped style-with no metaphors, pseudo or otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill. He insisted that infantrymen be taught to shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others remembered...
Like his close friend Ben Lear (whom he was slated to succeed when he was pulled away from his corps command last October), cocky, Wyoming-born, West Point-educated Lloyd Fredendall is a spit-&-polish disciplinarian, a top-notch administrator, a stern critic of incompetent commanders. At one maneuver critique last summer he cracked: "The opposing commanders got their lines so far extended it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other...
...commander of the Second Army (see col. 2), Lieut. General Ben Lear's duty has been to transform hundreds of thousands of young civilians into soldiers. Last week, flat-bellied and fit but pushing 64, Disciplinarian Lear announced that he would retire next month as a field officer. (His probable assignment: a desk job on onetime Chief of Staff Malin Craig's general promotion board...