Word: lawton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew the combat records of the members of the J.C.S.: himself, General Hoyt Vandenberg, who had commanded the Ninth Air Force in Europe, the Army's General J. Lawton Collins, who had commanded the VII Corps at Normandy. Then he got in a low blow: "I was not associated with Admiral Denfeld during the war. I am not familiar with his experiences . . . [Denfeld, by order of his superiors, spent most of the war in Washington as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel]. Undoubtedly it was because of this record that he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations...
Denfeld's outburst startled a few people. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hurried from the room, speechless. General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tore up his prepared statement and started over again. The Army hastily summoned Chief of Staff General Joe Lawton Collins back from Japan to testify in rebuttal. This week, too, the Air Force would at last have...
...BARBER The American National Bank Lawton, Okla...
...year as one of the worst trained in the hemisphere, President Dumarsais Estimé decided that it was high time for Haiti to start learning its journalistic ABCs. He summoned blonde, blue-eyed Edith Efron, 27, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and an ex-newshen (the Lawton (Okla.) Constitution, the New York Times), and invited her to start a journalism course at the University of Haiti...
Under Johnson and Bradley, a new team of top defense officials this week went to work. To succeed Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, the President named hardy, crisp-spoken 53-year-old General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, whose string of World War II campaigns stretched from Guadalcanal to the Rhine...