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...General Andrew D. Bruce, chief of the Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked Cow House Creek which runs through it, providing seven fine swimming holes where parboiled tankers can cool...
...senior member of the board, Admiral King should cause no such complaints. A martinet who drives careless officers to appeal for transfer to a kinder command, he wants nothing less than perfection of performance from his subordinates, habitually reserves his back pats for officers who solve problems by attack...
...Chief. Most military men think the U. S. is very lucky in the man who happened to boss its Army A.D. 1940. A stern disciplinarian but no martinet, the Army's Chief of Staff has been a soldier's soldier since the day he left V. M. I. a senior cadet captain and all-Southern tackle. Honor graduate of the old Infantry-Cavalry School in 1907, he showed his administrative stuff as a student in the Staff School, stayed on at Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young...
...establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread into the Antarctic Ocean, and the New England skippers asked the Government for information and charts. Congress approved a naval expedition, settled its command on Lieut. Charles Wilkes, a scholarly, hot-tempered, opinionated martinet...
...Harvard dormitory was Stone & Kimball's first office. Herbert Stuart Stone, described as a "martinet" in appearance, an "exquisite" in taste, was the son of the founder-editor of the Chicago Daily News...