Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who suspected he was in the Navy only for effect soon revised their opinion. He was the ideal naval administrator-big, neat, quiet, orderly and a bear for work. Halsey made him his flag secretary-chief administrative officer of headquarters ashore, and an assistant chief of staff at sea-and began calling him Harold...
...break. He requested combat duty and was sent to famed Admiral Bill Halsey's staff-a piece of luck such as few fresh-water reserve officers enjoyed. But after that he made his own way. His first interview with the Admiral was one of the shortest in naval history. Growled Halsey: "Are you down here to work?" Said Stassen: "Yes, sir." That...
Most of the University at that time was still engaged in training service men. The Naval ROTC followed the two-day vacation order, as did the Communications School, but Supply Corps personnel continued their work, marking V-J Day with a party...
...which controls three golf courses (including Pebble Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...
Last week, President Truman signed a bill authorizing the Navy to buy (for $2,149,000) Duke Sam's Del Monte Hotel as a postgraduate "Little Annapolis" for naval officers. By then, Duke Sam was already busy planning a model village, including a $320,000 shopping center, to house the 12,000 to 15,000 instructors, students, wives, servants, etc. he expects to live near the school. On the site of the present Del Monte golf-course clubhouse, he is planning a new Del Monte Hotel to house non-naval customers. As the Navy officers come...