Word: fechet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterly attacked what he thought was graft, sham, inefficiency, stupidity in the aeronautics industry and in Government functions affecting aviation. All but fanatical on the subject of national defense, he preached the gospel of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell. Last year he hired Major General James Edmond Fechet, retired head of the Army Air Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. He has been known to take a revolver (empty...
After an emergency meeting in the dead of night, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of Air Corps, and his assistant, Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (in command of the maneuvers) set the armada's schedule back 24 hr. Particularly was this irksome to Secretary Davison. His guest and fellow-observer at the Dayton concentration was his fellow-Yaleman, close friend and sub-cabinet colleague and rival, David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York...