Word: mcnarney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another airman was a less frequent visitor: dour, taciturn, officially ruthless Lieut. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, whose rise was in some ways symbolic of the Air Forces' new prestige in the Army. McNarney has a job of the first importance which might have gone to a groundsman. As General Marshall's trusted deputy, he alone is empowered to act in the name of the Chief on many matters which otherwise would sponge up General Marshall's crowded hours...
Global Head? Once each week he meets with the Army War Council: Stimson, Arnold, McNarney, Assistant Secretaries Robert Abercrombie Lovett (Air) and John J. McCloy (general utility), and able Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, Chief of the Army's Ground Forces, who has the biggest direct command in the service. At these conferences, General Marshall does not have to consult world maps. He carries his war map in his head...
...civilian, Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court of the United States, headed the commission and gave its report a judicial tone. The rest of the commission was well equipped to supply professional understanding: Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, Major General Frank R. McCoy (retired); retired Admirals Joseph M. Reeves, himself a onetime CINCUS, and William H. Standley, onetime Chief of Naval Operations...
Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
...General Stanley Dunbar Embick, Commander of the Fourth Corps Area, charged with Atlantic coastal defense; Captain Harry W. Hill of the Navy's War Plans' Division; New York City's omnipresent Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Commander Forrest Sherman of the Navy and Lieut. Colonel Joseph T. McNarney of the Army Air Corps, who will alternate on aviation questions; and the State Department's Assistant Chief of the European Affairs Division John Dewey Hickerson...