Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting into a White House Cadillac, he spied Associated Pressman Ernest B. Vaccaro, who had been assigned to watch the Truman apartment. "C'mon in, Tony," said the President. Tony hopped into the Presidential car. Driving down Connecticut Avenue, President Truman made it clear that he had no illusions about the immense difficulty of his job or about the greatness of the leader he followed. He was frightened, but he was also determined. "There have been few men in all history the equal of the man into whose shoes I am stepping. I pray God I can measure...
Army General Arnold will be not the least important member of the operating firm. He is himself one of the Joint Chiefs (the others: George Marshall, Ernest King, the President's Fleet Admiral William Leahy). His Pacific assignment is to boss the virtually autonomous, global Twentieth Air Force B-29s. As chief of the Army Air Forces he will also command smaller Army bombers. The theorists who believe that a nation can be brought to its knees by airpower may get another chance to prove it. Congested, inflammable Japan is an excellent laboratory...
...world's diplomats argued behind closed doors last week over the question of international trusteeship of colonial areas and island bases. But Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, boss of the world's greatest navy, made his position clear: the bases which were won in World War II by U.S. arms must be kept by U.S. arms. Said...
...Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who recently (and somewhat defensively) reaffirmed his faith in the battleship (TIME, April 9), last week had some good words to say for air power: "Without our highly developed and closely integrated air arm, we would, in all probability, still be operating in Allied territory today...
...preservation and reputation of the maker (buildings like St. Peter's in Rome get top billing: three stars). The Venus Fixers approve expenditures for rebuilding (20,000,000 lire in Sicily) and get the restoration started. In charge is the U.S. Army's Lieut. Colonel Ernest Theodore DeWald...