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...succeed Brereton in command of the Ninth Air Force, Eisenhower released a top-flight air officer from his own staff. Close-mouthed Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, 45, veteran attack pilot...
...Censorship: the press heartily approved Palmer Hoyt's suggestion for a Senate investigation of censorship...
...Soldier's Eyes. In radar, OSRD has carried on somewhat like the airplane designers who picked up where the Wright brothers left off. Credit for discovery of the 20-year-old radar principle is in dispute between two U.S. Navy researchers, A. Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, and a Scottish physicist, Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. The British were the first to use radar (which they call the radio locator) in the Battle of Britain. But OSRD has converted the first crude radar into something of almost human intelligence and with superhuman powers...
Successors. McNary's passing left two jobs to be filled: his Oregon seat, and most important, his minority leadership. In Oregon, -the Portland Oregonian's Palmer Hoyt was considered a strong choice. But Governor Earl Snell may pick an interim Senator so that he can run for the seat himself in November...
...this was a negative argument at best. More sense-making was the statement of Palmer Hoyt, recently resigned as domestic chief of OWI: "If we tell the story of Japanese bestiality frankly and boldly, and as a part of each day's news, as I trust we will begin to do, I think the Japanese will treat their captives better. With the war going against them, they will fear to do otherwise...