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Word: foskett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Devitt ("Gus") Vanech, to devise rules for keeping subversive or disloyal employes out of federal service. ¶Named a Republican small-businessman, William Chapman Foster of New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary of Commerce. Foskett, to rear admiral. ¶Passed over 158 ranking medical directors to pick Michigan-born Captain Clifford Anders Swanson, 45, specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat ailments, to be surgeon general of the Navy, succeeding Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire. ¶Gave tea, dinner (black tie) and a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White Tie | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Independent Man | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Replaced Captain Clifford with a seagoing sailor, Captain James H. Foskett, who had become his good friend as skipper of the Augusta when she carried Harry Truman to & from Potsdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Heavy Weather | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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