Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, square State Capitol of Virginia he paused before a statue of Washington, then went in and addressed the joint Assembly, eloquently emphasizing what he had said in Fulton, paying homage to Virginia's history, slipping up on the middle initial of Robert E. Lee but remembering for the sake of his Southern hosts to change his prepared text from "the great American Civil War" to "the great war of the American States." The Virginians cheered...
Should the G.I. press be free or slave? In the precise military mind of Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, there was no question about it. Last week, at a press conference in Rome, the starched boss of the Mediterranean theater, famed as a stickler for propriety and protocol, sounded off. He had ordered all letters to the once-popular "Mail Call" column of Stars and Stripes "screened" by the brass before publication...
Explained Courthouse Lee: "This is not a free newspaper. . . . I can break up Stars and Stripes. I can order all these men somewhere else. . . . But I don't intend to." A reporter suggested that the paper's chief value had been its staffers' freedom to write like newsmen, unshackled by the Article of War (No. 63) that forbids disrespect to superiors. Lee set him straight: "Any man in my command, sir, who wears the uniform is first of all a soldier." He thought the matter would settle itself, anyway, since the Army presently would be "a career...
When the General's views got around, a hell-to-breakfast howl went up. Stars and Stripes alumni recalled a year-old legend: General Lee, like the late General Patton, had tried and failed to get Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe (who grew up in Stars and Stripes) suppressed-or shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print...
Speakers listed in the Forum's prospectus are Lee Pressman, Senator Burton Hickenlooper, Roland Young, Thomas Finletter, Senator Edwin Johnson, FTC Chairman Judge Elwin Davis, Thurman Arnold, and others including Harvard Professors Sumner Slichter, Alvin Hansen, Roscoe Pound, Arthur N. Holcombe, Edward S. Mason, and C. Crane Brinton...