Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia's influence has diffused through out the South and the nation in letters, on the bench, in the cloth, in medicine, the army and navy, and most famously in public office. Admiral William F. Halsey and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., belong to the same alumni association which nominally includes Pee and one Nathaniel R. Clanton of Augusta, Ga., black sheep of his class, who was killed on the barri cades of the Paris Commune...
After two days of headlines, Admiral Halsey, out in San Francisco, had not bothered to reply...
...public statement, the Methodists noted that the Halsey memoirs, written with the help of Journalist J. Bryan III and serialized last summer in the Saturday Evening Post, showed the Admiral as a confirmed drinking man. He liked an occasional beer or Martini but his staple was Scotch and water. Admiral Halsey was quoted as saying: "There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink...
...Halsey had unbosomed even more perilous confessions. A non-believer in the strict Navy regulations against liquor aboard ship, he had carried 100 gallons of bourbon for his pilots. Said the Admiral: "To a man who has just had a tense, hazardous flight or a wet watch there is no substitute for a tot of sound spirits, as the Royal Navy well knows...
...supply the capital and know-how, Stettinius formed Stettinius Associates with such big wheels as General Electric's Chairman Philip D. Reed, ex-Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and Admiral William F. Halsey. They will raise $1,000,000 in capital to form the Liberia Co., jointly owned with the Liberian Government. This company, in turn, will form up to 20 different subsidiaries to develop Liberia's iron ore, cocoa, lumber and other resources...