Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of these Germans sincerely want to become converts? The question has implications that would give a patriarch pause-and the slight, dark-haired U.S. Jewish chaplain who has to give the answers is no patriarch. But whether he likes it or not, Lieut. Mayer Abramowitz, 27, Jewish U.S. Army chaplain in Berlin, is ex officio chief rabbi of the city...
...Lieut. Abramowitz turned away all would-be converts, sincere or not. His stock answer to suppliants was: "Wait until the Jews have their own chief rabbi here. Let him decide." He explained, without bitterness, that his motive was not a projection of the "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" doctrine. The Jews were too much hurt, he says. Along with other rabbis and chaplains he feels that the time is not yet ripe for Germans to be admitted into the Jewish faith...
...landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp...
...aviation industry had bid heavily for the war-taught savvy of top-ranking officers: A.T.C.'s Lieut. General Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association...
There were many still on duty, still in good jobs. General Courtney Hodges was still commanding the First Army-but at Governors Island, N.Y. In Baltimore, Lieut. General Al Wedemeyer was finding it so hard to keep busy as commander of the Sixth Army that he was begging friends in Washington to come up and lunch with him. And among the shady hackberry trees and smooth lawns of San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, General Jonathan Wainwright, commanding the Fourth Army, had plenty of time to remember Jap shells...