Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Bill Halsey's ski team climaxed a season of steady improvement by defeating Dartmouth yesterday in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race, Led by Gerry Genn, who finished second in 1 minute, 24 seconds, the Crimson...
...stated, "but we need snow around Boston to practice; then we'll be up with the best half-dozen teams in the East." The skimen have been hampered this season by an almost complete lack of snow on local practice slopes, but under the able guidance of Coach Bill Halsey 3G, former Dartmouth star, the team has gained enough importance to be granted recognition as a regular Varsity by the H.A.A...
...most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
Like Marshall's, Admiral William F. Halsey's cup was overflowing. At Columbia, he got an' honorary LL.D.; in Philadelphia, the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution handed him its Good Citizenship Medal...
Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...