Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tooker are exceptions. DeWitt joined Travelers in 1925, as a claims adjuster, moved through that field to become president in 1952; at his instigation, Travelers has become famous for fast claim paying. Tooker, a Hartford native, was first an actuary, moved over to personnel work after World War II naval service, and has since supervised the 50,000 Travelers agents and brokers who sell policies in 50 states and Canada. Under this untraditional hold, the largest multiple-line insurance company operates with a relaxed kind of multiple management. "DeWitt," explains one Travelers executive, "is not one who comes dashing into...
...hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes were dispatched from Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station and the Lakehurst, N.J., Naval Air Station. Six Coast Guard cutters near the scene were given the emergency "go" signal, and two commercial vessels in the vicinity raced in to help...
...military is not a welcome partner in making national security decisions, Capt. James F. Calvert, USN, told Harvard's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit yesterday...
Calvert, Head of the Europe and NATO Branch of the Politico-Military Division under the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, said that the military viewpoint in international affairs is of vital importance, but often no one is able to explain it convincingly to the political policy-makers...
...pride in having scooped the world on the signing of the World War I armistice, which he happened to report four days before it actually took place. Having seen what was apparently a government dispatch and having relied on an unimpeachable source-Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commanding U.S. naval forces in France-Howard never regretted his premature dispatch: "No real reporter could have or would have done otherwise...