Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Decision. By the time the planners' "year of crisis" comes, Ike Eisenhower and the present commanders of other services will be gone. Sometime next fall, the Veterans Administration's General Omar Bradley will probably take over Ike's job. Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter...
...Instead of the traditional cap & gown, George Marshall wore a business suit, General Omar Bradley his Army uniform. Explained Harvard's President James B. Conant: "We put no hood on those receiving degrees . . . uniforms and civilian dress are quite usual. . . . Dress is optional...
Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Veterans, Affairs Administrator Omar N. Bradley--Army Chief of Staff and Twelfth Army Commanding General, respectively, during the war--were cited in their honorary Doctor of Laws degrees, presented by President Conant, for their double roles in American public life...
...Omar Nelson Bradley, Administrator of Veterans Affairs and former Commanding General, Second Corps, (Northern Tunisia and Sicily), Commanding General, First U. S. Army (Normandy) and Commanding General, Twelfth Army Group (France, Belgium, Laxembourg, Germany). Doctor of Laws. Citation: "A master of the art of war who now serves those whom he once led; a courageous administrator, the nation is doubly in his debt...
...induction, he had to gallop from Chicago and the emergency Navy Pier campus he had made available for 3,800 ex-G.I.s, to Urbana-Champaign, 120 miles away, where he educates 18,500 more students. The high point of the day was a speech by Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley, a Stoddard friend and an old math teacher himself...