Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left . . . with renewed inspiration," Charlie Wilson said later. The inspiration had a very practical basis: the same day Franklin Roosevelt announced that WPB Chairman Don Nelson was off to China "for several months." Two things seemed clear: Don Nelson had been exiled; Charlie Wilson was now in charge of WPB. The President had clearly taken Wilson's side in the long-smoldering Nelson-Wilson dispute...
What the fighting was about, besides a clash of personalities, was certainly not clear to the U.S. and did not seem to be clear even to Franklin Roosevelt. Nelson's friends pictured him as the friend of little business and reconversion, bravely battling the Army, the Navy, and Charlie Wilson. Wilson, however, insisted that it was he who eight months ago had drawn up WPB's only full-scale reconversion plans...
Special guests who have been invited for Thursday night include Colonel Francis L. Purdon, USA, ASTP Commandant and professor of Military Science and Tactics; Major Howard B. Smith, Major Jerome L. Rosengard, Major Nelson Miles, Captain Cyrus S. Trescartin, Captain William L. Lomax, Captain Nelson T. Hoadley, and Captain Robert P. May, Commander of Company...
Able, bespectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley last week took over the biggest field command ever held by a U.S. general. Allied Headquarters announced formation of the Twelfth Army Group in northwestern France with Omar Bradley as its boss. Components of the Twelfth Group: the First Army, which Bradley formerly commanded, and the Third, commanded by Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...only U.S. generals who have died wealthy have found wealth on the outside-like George Washington, who was rich in land, goods and slaves, or General John McClellan, who was president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Co., or General Nelson A. Miles, who married money. Most of the makers of U.S. military history have died just one jump ahead of poverty...