Word: millarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas W. L. Cameron--Eleanor Millard (Radcliffe...
Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon had been missing for eight weeks-the 17th U.S. air general to become a casualty in World War II-and his fast-growing U.S. Air Force in the Pacific was still without a permanent boss. Last week the Army airmen in the Pacific got one. Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, 52, ranking member of the Army's only set of general twins,* cleared out his desk in the Pentagon Building and went off to what will become the biggest air-combat job left in World...
Maryland's lean Millard Tydings, his sharp jaw jutting, his face red with wrath, rose to address his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. In his opening words there was an ominous restraint, in his tone a deadly edge. Senator Tydings, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Cross, grimly said he would speak "from a very slight knowledge of modern warfare...
Then ex-Lieut. Col. Millard Tydings, A.E.F., got down to stronger words: "Think of the men standing on the battlefronts in the dark, learning that back home the great Congress of the U.S. has said that the people at home are doing a good enough job, nobody is to be bothered, a man can loaf if he wants to and there will be no penalty. . . . I think we are cowardly in this Congress, when we read that up to this time 1,000,000 men have been killed, wounded, or are missing, and permit unlawful strikes to take place...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...