Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: "A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back ..." Not only are airmen permitted suspenders, but "if I catch any without them, I will give them a piece of my mind...
...months the Pentagon has been wrestling with the problem of what to do about an Air Force chief of staff when General Hoyt Vandenberg's four-year term expires on April 30. There is a strong peacetime tradition against keeping a man in one of the top jobs of the armed forces for more than one term, but in Vandenberg's case there were strong reasons to justify an exception...
...Defense production was a national headache, too. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's report on his return from Korea underlined the fact that we lag woefully behind the Communists in numbers...
...acquainted, standing before audiences for hours answering questions. The greatest threat to him is that the Republicans may get a candidate named Vandenberg. One possibility is Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., son of the man whose death last year sent Moody to the Senate. A less likely possibility: General Hoyt Vandenberg, 53, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force and nephew of the late Senator. The general's term is expiring, and some Michigan politicians have been talking to him about the Senate...
...London, her parents announced that Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr., 23, son of the Air Force chief of staff, had won the hand of Sue Rosannah Johnson, 19, daughter of Major General Leon Johnson, Medal of Honor man (the Ploesti raid) and boss of the Third U.S. Air Force in Britain. They will be married at Mitchel Field, Long Island, after her father takes over his new job as commander of the Continental Air Command...