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...William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, late great prophet of air power, whose refusal to be silenced led to his court-martial in 1925 for "insubordination," got a token payment on the debt owed him by the U.S. The House finally got around to passing a bill-which the Senate had already sent down twice-authorizing the award of a special Congressional Medal of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Wonders | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

William ("Billy") Lendrum Mitchell, whose ardent advocacy of U.S. air power led to his court-martial for "insubordination" in 1926 and demotion from brigadier general to colonel, was posthumously voted (by the U.S. Senate) the Congressional Medal of Honor, promotion to the rank of major general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Plans & Promises | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...acts as Attorney General was to have 16 alleged Communists and fellow-travelers indicted in Detroit for having recruited volunteers for Loyalist Spain. Michigan libertarians raised a great cry. In a Milwaukee court, G-Man John F. Elich related how he trailed one of the 16, Dr. Frederick C. Lendrum, who had examined Loyalist volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Even Hand | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...following me?" Dr. Lendrum demanded. Not yet ready to arrest his quarry, G-Man Elich replied: "I thought you were the man running around with my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Even Hand | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Pleased, the delegates listened to greetings from Maine's Democratic Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, raised to the presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Little Fellows | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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