Word: gruenther
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General Alfred M. Gruenther (ret.). logistician, president, American Red .....................................................................................................Cross L.H.D...
...Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects: AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime Air Force Under Secretary; Presidential Assistant (for National Security) Gordon Gray, onetime Army Secretary; retired General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, who might be loath to give up the prestige, house, $30,000 salary and perquisites that go with his job of president of the American Red Cross; Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, who would be difficult to replace...
...effect on his own departure, qualified the statement to indicate that he might stay on. Washington, meanwhile, buzzed about successors for either job. Mentioned: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil, AEC Chairman John McCone, Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross...
Three members of Colonel Carter's class of 1919 at West Point, four-star Generals Alfred Gruenther, Albert Wedemeyer and Nathan Twining, were subjects of TIME covers, and each one signed. Gruenther also helped get the autograph of Field Marshal Montgomery, who wrote across his cover portrait, "Montgomery of Alamein." Another West Pointer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, class of 1915, has appeared on TIME'S cover more than anyone else-13 times since 1942, as soldier, candidate and President*-and has signed two covers for Carter...
...addition to Draper, board chairman of the Mexican Light & Power Co. and retired World War II major general, the committee includes: Houston Lawyer Dillon Anderson, onetime presidential assistant for national-security affairs; Detroit Banker Joseph M. Dodge, onetime Budget Director; American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Washington Lawyer Marx Leva, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense; New York Banker John J. McCloy, onetime High Commissioner in Germany; Dallas Businessman George C. McGhee, onetime Assistant Secretary of State; General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of U.S. forces in Europe; Admiral Arthur W. Radford...