Word: halsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next year, took a vice-presidency of T.W.A., and then the presidency of TACA Airways. He joined ex-Congressman Joe Casey, T.W.A.'s general counsel, in a scheme to buy surplus Government tankers, brought in ex-Boss Stettinius, who, in turn, brought in Fleet Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey. The tanker deals made over $3,000,000 on a $100,000 investment, and before long became the subject of a congressional investigation (TIME, March...
...average man cannot afford the kind of insurance coverage that he needs." The trend has shaken the insurance business to its deep and respectable foundations. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (No. 11 in the U.S.) has vigorously opposed the specials. In Life Insurance Courant, New York Underwriter Halsey D. Josephson complains: "The surrender . . . to the expedient of issuing specials . . . may very well be the beginning of the end of American life insurance as we have known it, [because it breaks] the tradition of equality for all." Special policies are not new (Metropolitan has had one since 1909). But until...
After the game, one of the first men in the dressing room was Fleet Admiral (ret.) William F. ("Bull") Halsey. No naval battle had ever given his salty heart more satisfaction. Bull bounced around like a midshipman, congratulating every man on the Navy squad. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas and Rear Admiral Walter Boone, Annapolis superintendent, did some backslapping of their own. This, after all, was the Army-Navy game-and the underdog middies had left the field on the long end of a 27-20 score...
...command decisions were consistently and uncannily right. If he erred, it was in not pressing his views upon his superiors, Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, in the great battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf-both occasions when too much of the Japanese fleet got away. In all naval war there has been no bolder or more dramatic decision than Mitscher's, in the Philippine Sea, to violate the hallowed blackout rule and light up the fleet like Coney Island to help homing flyers find their carriers. Characteristically, he took this crushing responsibility with only...
...deliberate conspiracy. Finally, after 16 months, the Government got down to the key part of its case: an attempt to show that the bankers had invented the syndicate system in 1915. But one of the two Government witnesses, Harold L. Stuart, 72, head of Chicago's huge Halsey, Stuart & Co., directly contradicted the Government's contentions. He said that his firm had used the syndicate system long before...