Word: disciplinarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There have been especially heavy increases in air power, under the command of cyclonic Brigadier General Henry Black Clagett, who entered West Point (1902), when Douglas MacArthur was a first classman and who, like MacArthur, is impatient of sloppy soldiering, a stern disciplinarian. Henry Clagett's immediate superior and MacArthur's No. 1 man is leather-dimpled Major General George Grunert, in command of the Philippine regulars for the past year...
Toward his men, Sir Percy is precise, unostentatious, efficient in a banker's quiet way rather than with the bluff explosiveness most commanding salts are supposed to have. But he is a stiff rewards-and-punishment disciplinarian of the old grog and rod school. He has had two wives, but he is married to the Navy. When he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches, his wife said: "My husband has one hobby, the Navy...
...tight-mouthed, efficient as a gyrocompass and untiring as the Mediterranean sun, Sir Andrew spent most of his years on the way up aboard destroyers, mostly in the Mediterranean. He learned some unhappy lessons off Cape Helles during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He is known as a grim disciplinarian and a bear for work. He has such a loud voice for commands that his underlings say that inter-ship signals in battle are just a waste of effort; and he is such an expert navigator that his crews say he could cut an egg in half with a battleship...
...drive which made them outstanding the year before has been lost. Then again there have been those who, upon election to the captaincy, apparently assumed that their selection was paramount to an appointment to the coaching staff. They became simultaneously a would-be mixture of coach, strategist, big brother, disciplinarian and critic whose opinions must be considered not only sound but indisputable...
...Chief. Most military men think the U. S. is very lucky in the man who happened to boss its Army A.D. 1940. A stern disciplinarian but no martinet, the Army's Chief of Staff has been a soldier's soldier since the day he left V. M. I. a senior cadet captain and all-Southern tackle. Honor graduate of the old Infantry-Cavalry School in 1907, he showed his administrative stuff as a student in the Staff School, stayed on at Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young...