Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately Communist cries of "gangster diplomacy" rang out. They were answered promptly by bull-tongued Admiral William F. Halsey, who snorted: "It's nobody's damn business where we go. We will go anywhere we please." Of course blustering "Bull" Halsey, whose diplomatic age is about seven and a half, was a bad boy to say it. But many an inhibited career diplomat and citizen were glad that...
...American World Airways got the biggest brass of all: Admiral of the Fleet William F. Halsey, who became Pan Am's vice president in charge of trans-Pacific service. To "Bull" Halsey, recently high-jinksing in South America, the Pacific is as familiar as the palm of his hand. He knows its logistics, its geopolitics, the length & breadth of its "unsinkable aircraft carriers." But mostly Pan Am will count on the publicity value of his name...
...start it had looked like a shoo-in for the Stassen camp. There was so much rejoicing that "Harold is home again," so much confidence in the prestige he had gained at the San Francisco Conference, so much faith in the appeal of the Stassen war record as Admiral Halsey's flag secretary that it seemed nothing could go wrong...
Chicago's frumious Mayor Ed Kelly, who once introduced the Navy's famed "Bull" Halsey as "Alderman Halsey" had another one of those weeks. Highlights...
Ernest Hemingway became a pin-up boy in earnest: popular-magazine illustrators Frederic Varady, Al Buell and Mortimer Wilson decided that the taurine author's head was one of the six "most startling and exciting heads in the world . . . faunlike." The other pre-eminent polls: Admiral William F. Halsey, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, U.A.W. Leader Walter Reuther, Cinemactor Tyrone Power, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover...