Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired. And, like many another high-ranking, low-paid public servant, he was having personal budget trouble. Last week Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, who in two years had achieved a "miracle" reorganization of veterans' medicine (TIME, Oct. 13), resigned as medical director of the Veterans Administration. General Omar Bradley, VA Administrator, who had persuaded him to take the job, was leaving. Hawley thought it was about time he left...
...nobody's surprise, the President last week also appointed General Omar N. Bradley to succeed Ike Eisenhower as the Army's chief of staff. Bradley will move over from his civilian post as Veterans Administrator as soon as General Eisenhower goes to Columbia University...
...Gray Jr., 58, hearty, joke-loving vice president of the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. Railroader Gray, whose late father was president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat out the other...
...Call. When General Omar Bradley took over V.A. in 1945, he offered Dr. Hawley an unattractive job. Veterans' medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
...SHAEF stymied the Third Army every time it got rolling; 3) had Patton's plans not been upset by higher headquarters, the Germans could never have mounted their Ardennes campaign; 4) many of the Third Army's great victories were won only because Patton, sometimes with General Omar Bradley's help, attacked when SHAEF wanted him to defend...