Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week Australians and New Zealanders could truthfully say that they had a good idea of what the U.S. citizen was like: they had met him, in good season and bad, in all his types-from Admiral William Halsey Jr. and General Douglas MacArthur to the G.I.s in the bars. But last week they met another U.S. citizen as different and astonishing to them as the koala, platypus, kiwi, wombat and dingo had been to their forbears...
...office of Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., aboard his flagship at headquarters in the South Pacific, hangs a new, unofficial motto for the U.S. Navy, sent to him by Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz:* "The Lord gave us two ends to use, one to think with and one to sit with. The war depends on which we choose -heads we win, tails we lose...
...well-intentioned; they were merely doing their salty best to carry out the new official Washington line against "civilian complacency," one of the causes of the current grave lag in production (TIME, July 26). But many a citizen was bound to recall the strange contrast of Admiral William F. Halsey, who predicted, in a whoopsadaisy mood last January, that he could see U.S. troops marching into Tokyo by the year...
Correspondents at the various headquarters tended to judge these arrangements by the ragged fashion in which news was released. Those with Admiral Halsey complained that both the Navy Department and MacArthur's headquarters were hogging the releases. From MacArthur's headquarters the New York Daily News's shrewd Jack Turcott cabled that the offensive "apparently has revealed a wider differentiation than ever...
...abbreviation for General Douglas MacArthur, Allied Commander in Chief in the Southwest Pacific; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet; and Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander in the South Pacific...