Word: lawton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planning and policy group, headed by Banker-Economist Paul Nitze. It had the backing of Foreign Affairs Adviser W. Averell Harriman and War Mobilizer W. Stuart Symington. After two days of shirtsleeved debate, it won the endorsement of the Chiefs of Staff of the three armed services-General J. Lawton Collins of the Army, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of the Air Force, Admiral Forrest Sherman of the Navy...
...admires General Omar Bradley and General Joseph Lawton Collins and loves the Army of the United States, but cannot love a chicken division when it is chicken. Love has its limits, but when it is given it is given for keeps though awful things may happen...
...July 3, when its advance elements had been committed (in two-company strength) south of Seoul, the 24th had been fighting without respite. Now it was entitled to rest, for a while, on its laurels. On a quick visit to the front last week, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins paid his tribute: "The 24th has written one of the most glorious pages in military history with its actions in Korea...
...Farther westward, occasional warships crept into Pearl Harbor, vanished into the reaches of the Pacific. Through Hawaii flowed the other, inevitable, steady stream of war-commercial airliners out of the Far East carrying hundreds of civilian evacuees. Two airborne arrivals flew directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds breached the 24th Division's line along the Kum River...
...Lawton, Okla., Judge Lem Foster fined Clifton Minner $20 for picking Daniel Clark's pocket, then fined Daniel Clark $20 for public drunkenness...