Word: hewitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speakers at the meeting will be the Rev. Dr. Irving Murray, of the Cambridge Unitarian Church, Samuel Stuart III '45, and Horace White, one of the Trade Union Fellows studying at the University. J. Hamilton Hewitt, Jr. '45 will be chairman...
Married. Ensign Evan Welling Thomas II, 23, son of Socialist Norman Thomas; and Anna Davis Robins, 18, daughter of Hewitt Rubber Co. President Thomas Robins Jr.; in Buffalo...
...Without End. On his way back to his African headquarters on a destroyer, Hewitt wrote a congratulatory message to all his thousand ships. To his congratulations he added: "It is now our duty to support, maintain and build up the forces which have been landed. Carry...
...this called for mathematical precision, and Admiral Hewitt brought to his task one of the most brilliant mathematical minds the Navy ever had. To his natural bent he had added some formidable experience. Last July he was given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design armored force landings, organize transport divisions and train 3,000 amphibious boat crews. He had to send his huge force across the Atlantic and still have it rendezvous at the exact time for the landings. His success brought him this, the biggest job of his life...
Sitting in his headquarters last week, Admiral Hewitt said to TIME Correspondent John Hersey (who cabled this report) : "Yes, it went better than we dreamed it could. That's because in the thousand ships we sent out there were many thousands of men who knew what...