Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Approved a bill strengthening the hand of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (see Armed Forces) by giving him specific "direction, authority and control" over the armed forces instead of "general" authority previously granted. It would set up a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the principal military adviser to the President and the Defense Secretary, but giving him no vote on the JCS. The bill also limits the power of the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries to appeal over the Defense Secretary's head to the President. The House has not yet acted, and seemed...
...determined task force of the U.S. Navy last week declared open war on the rest of the nation's military establishment, end specifically on the new boss of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Beaten and routed in the guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World...
...statement dark with implications, Van Zandt demanded a full-scale investigation of "the unusually large purchases of aircraft [by the Air Force] from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Floyd Odium, a contributor to the Democratic campaign, and a company of which Louis Johnson was, until three days after his nomination as Secretary of Defense, a director and Washington counsel...
Then Van Zandt sighted squarely in on the long-cigar-shaped silhouette of Con-solidated's six-engined B-36, backbone of the Air Force's strategic bombing force. Since Louis Johnson sank the Navy's supercarrier six weeks ago (TIME, May 2), and with it the Navy's hopes for a piece of the Air Force's long-range bombing mission, the Navy has stepped up its attacks on the ability of the B-36 to carry out its mission. Armed with a secret and rambling, anonymous memo which had been prepared...
Silent Partner. In Boston, Ventriloquist James Johnson, on trial for deserting his wife, was told by the judge: "You must choose between your wife and the dummy"; promptly chose the dummy...