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Shaggy-browed "Bull" Halsey was moving on. In the "Admiral's Cabin," a roomy office on the second floor of a former French barracks in Noumea, there was handshaking and bluff well-wishing. Admiral William F. Halsey had just handed over a command that had once been the toughest in U.S. naval history. The now quiescent South Pacific was going to a top administrative officer-Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, formerly deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet. Said Halsey to his men: ". . . Carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition . . . and may we join up again farther along the road...
...years that are left to me, I shall loathe every Jap. And with Halsey and Patton and all the rest, including the farmers of New Jersey, who have the courage to speak out and act, I shall want them scourged from this our blessed America, which is my native land, too. Only a dead Jap can be trusted...
...General MacArthur has direct strategic command of all Allied forces operating within the Southwest Pacific area. If Admiral Halsey wants to operate there, MacArthur is his strategic boss. Elsewhere, Admiral Halsey is under the sole command of Admiral Nimitz, CINCPAC and CINCPOA...
...Francisco the Navy's three four-star top dogs, Admirals King, Nimitz and Halsey, met to touch up their plans regarding that destiny...
...bond issue of its subsidiary Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Co. through Kuhn, Loeb, which had long been handling most of their refinancing. As usual, prompt objection had come from peppery Cyrus Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co., and from publicity-shy, dapper Harold Stuart of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. Champions of competitive bidding from way back, they cried that the traditional system of financing through private negotiation be tween underwriters and railroads had al lowed Kuhn, Loeb and Manhattan's Morgan, Stanley and Co. to monopolize U.S. railroad financing. This, they complained, not only cost...