Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign to get G.I.s to wear their helmets straight, Lee began stopping men in the street and asking: "Is my helmet on straight?" Told respectfully that it was, the General would crack back: "Well, yours isn't." This had the desired effect until Lee ran into one officer who answered: "No sir, your helmet isn't quite straight. Move it a little over this way-no, that way-no, that's wrong too." Word of the tactic got around; the General had to abandon his campaign...
...General started out to have famed Cartoonist Mauldin barred from the pages of Stars & Stripes. The reason: Mauldin's weary, unshaven G.I.s were too slovenly and unsoldierly for General Lee's taste. Colleagues talked the General out of it, however, before his orders got started through channels...
...Half. Midway it may have been, in one sense, but it was less than midway in point of time or distance. The real march to Tokyo could not begin from Midway: it had to start from Guadalcanal, and disaster nearly overtook it. Nimitz hated to relieve Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who had burned himself out in the South Pacific, allowing himself neither exercise nor relaxation, trying to run an offensive on a shoestring (and four months ahead of schedule). But at last Nimitz sent Halsey south to take over...
George Washington, who was first in war, peace and the hearts of his countrymen, was also first to endow a U.S. college with a sizable gift of securities. Washington and Lee University, reporting on the 100 shares of James River Navigation Co. stock (total par value: $20,000) which Washington got from a grateful State of Virginia and passed on in 1796 to Liberty Hall Academy (later renamed for him and General Robert E. Lee), said that it had yielded an average 6% from 1802 until 1892, when Virginia retired the stock at $500 a share. The University, having reinvested...
Tonight and Every Night (Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman; TIME...