Word: holcombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Smuts, South Africa's old-soldier Prime Minister, met U.S. Minister Thomas Holcomb, former U.S.M.C. Commandant, at a reception in Pretoria. "Frisk him all over," Smuts ordered in his best gangsterese, "I think he has an atomic bomb...
...three-star generals in Marine Corps history. The others: ex-Commandant (now Minister to South Africa) Thomas Holcomb, and present Commandant Alexander Archer Vandegrift. * At least three other Army divisions in the Pacific have had their commanders relieved in mid-battle: the 32nd (Buna), the 7th (Attu), the 43rd (New Georgia-the latter two by admirals...
Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...
...scuttlebutt was busy weeks before blunt, soldierly Thomas Holcomb retired as Commandant of the Marine Corps, full of honors and the first four-star general in the history of the Corps. Rumor's net at that time (New Year's): General Holcomb was going to join the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff. This week the rumor was abandoned in favor of other and sounder information...
...scuttlebutt was that Marine Holcomb, who has served in China, the Philippines, the Caribbean and Europe, was all set for a diplomatic job. He was going to become U.S. Minister to the Union of South Africa. Reported reason for the choice: the State Department decided it could find no better man to deal with outspoken, common-sensical Premier Jan Christiaan Smuts, soldier of 43 years' standing, than outspoken, common-sensical Tommy Holcomb, veteran of 43 years of Marine service...