Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME has certain basic convictions, as well as a sense of obligation to evaluate the news in the light of these convictions. We have seen a similar approach being shared by an increasing number of people who deal with the news. One recent example is an editorial in Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post, which said: "The pure factual objectivity which most newspapers have sought has often been a will-o'-the-wisp . . . Who, what, where, when and why no longer answer all the questions. 'What does it mean?' is an important question that newspapers will...
...last official acts, retiring Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg handed a pilot's wings to his son, Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr. He also told graduates at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., that "the greatest fraternity on the face of the earth are the people who wear wings . . . You are not just jet jockeys . . . Take up the broader duty of understanding and preaching the role of air power . . . The people who won't face the truth . . . must be told repeatedly, earnestly, logically that air power will save the world from destruction...
Cool Criticism. Talbott was followed in the witness chair by outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, the man principally responsible for the rise of air power to predominance in U.S. strategic planning. Vandenberg spent the better part of three days ticking off criticisms of the Wilson budget in cool, unemotional tones...
Qualified Answers. From the scars left by the revolt of the admirals, the committee turned to the open wounds left by Defense Secretary Wilson's proposed cuts in Air Force appropriations.* Disturbed by outgoing Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg's statement that he had not protested the cuts before the National Security Council, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith asked each of the four nominees whether he would "speak up" if he thought that the defense budget had been cut so much as to endanger the U.S. security. With varying degrees of qualification, each said he would...
...would still have known only a fraction of the history of war at sea. But, like a considerable group of still serviceable flying officers, silver-haired, cigar-smoking General Nathan Farragut Twining has personally navigated sloops, junks and frigates of the air. When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare in the sky. Nate Twining, military airman since 1923, came to high command heavily...