Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Legion, whose word was once law to the Veterans Administration, last week turned all its fire power on the stubbornly independent new boss. General Omar Nelson Bradley. Off to Congressmen went a bristling indictment of Bradley signed by the Legion's hefty National Commander John Stelle...
Veterans reading the headlines blinked at the ferocity of the attack. Could Omar Bradley, the G.I.'s general and their hope for good and sympathetic administration of their affairs, really have let them down so badly...
...Omar Bradley readily conceded that he was even further behind in some of his work than the Legion had charged. Awaiting admission to hospitals were 12,220 veterans (not 7,000, as Stelle claimed). Unprocessed claims for disability payments totaled 458,757. But there were ample reasons. Bradley's efforts to put veterans in 40,000 Army hospital beds had been stymied by the Army. The great majority of disability cases could not be acted on until the armed forces supplied data...
...Like Omar, slick William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers. By changing the requirements on the eve of exams, Johnson ensured passing grades for his students. (Of 155 successful candidates for jobs as principals, 122 were Johnson pupils...
Last week the President also: ¶ Signed a bill giving Veterans' Administrator Omar N. Bradley a free hand, unfettered by civil service, in choosing personnel for a new department of medicine and surgery...